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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sad thread. Is there no grace? Most people do the best with the circumstances they are given.[/quote]

Too some degree I would agree with this. I usually had a family member at my performances, clean clothes, food, roof over my head, and toys. I grew up in a multi-generational family with a single parent, great grandmother, and a first cousin. The adults believed that kids should be seen and not heard and that rules are to be followed without question and I received plenty of spankings for just about everything I did wrong, including when I repeatedly wet the bed at age 5. Never once did my mom stop to think that something could be wrong until I had repeated UTIs. I eventually got the surgery to fix a bladder issue. These things make it hard to give grace. I lived a very lonely existence, where no one in my family bothered to get to know me. This life did teach me to be independent and capable as a teenager.[/quote]

PP who also stated that I had a lonely childhood. I give grace to certain things, like having food and shelter growing up. But no grace given for my mother not seeing my brother and I were being abused in the same home. It's one thing to miss what might happen at school, but for my mom to actually believe me when I said I hit my hand on the wall, that's why it was so bruised ( I was forced to play knuckles with bigger, stronger brothers until my hands swelled), to not see incident after incident for years..... Her grace is that I still call her occasionally.

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+1 Basic safety is my number one priority as a parent and it should have been the same for my parents, but it wasn't.  It made me feel like it didn't matter if I was there or not.  [/quote]

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