my father was a violent alcoholic and mother insane. I went through
years of extreme mental and physical child abuse. My grandmother
took me to social services, but my mother told them I was retarted,
and they didn’t believe my story and the abuse continued. My
story can be found @ child abuse effects .com under stories
scroll down to michael. the website has a orange background.
today my parents would be in prison for what they did to me.
why do you think social services and society ignore child abuse in 60′s and 70′s?
June 7, 2011
i think people were ignorant back then because of all the free love going around they probably didn’t think that bad things like that could happen.
It was a lack of education on their part.
it was a whole different era i’m afraid…there was vietnam going on, the manson murders,Kennedy killed, drugs galore, people were in a different time, and way of thinking….think alot of bad things happened to children, but we didn’t have the media we have now..or the some really sicko movies and porn stuff that there is now to contribute to child abuse…most people kept things hush/hush when it came to things..kept in the family and not socially exposing things like it’s done now….very sorry you had a rough childhood, sincerely…
I wish I could say they cared after that, but I for one grew up in the 80′s and 90′s being abused by my family without anyone ever stepping in. I think (and sincerely hope) that things are finally starting to get better now. I know that a lot of children still have to go through it, but at least people are stepping in more now than before I guess.
I think people were more ignorant of abuse and its seriousness before and it was somehow more acceptable, it wasn’t thought of as abuse unless it was very violent and the general attitude was that it wasn’t anyone’s business what was going on in other people’s homes. It’s like noone took it seriously back then. Fortunately people are a bit more aware nowadays and I hope that results in someone stepping in faster now when suspicion comes up about abuse.
I’m sorry you had to go through that sh-t. I know what it’s like.