This makes me so angry.

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Some of you may know now that my niece and nephew live with me and my parents. They both came out of a bad situation, and both of them have serious health problems. The biggest issue is with my niece though. She is anemic thanks to her mom beating her so often. Not only this, but she also has bowel issues because she wasn't fed properly. Things like this just get me so angry.

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I'm very sorry to hear that. Things like this make me angry as well. Why do people beat their children? Children are innocent and don't deserve it.

And me. There is no justification for beating your children. It is a horrible thing to do.

There's no exuse for parents to be beating their children for any reason.

I know I'll probably be getting a lot of flak for this, but sometimes, this kind of stuff makes me think "What if?"

What if we didn't live in such a free society? What if everything was so militaristic, nothing bad like this could happen? What if the punishment for child abuse was death? What if only people who could prove themselves as good parents were allowed to have children?

I know, I know. I wouldn't want to live under any of that strictness either. It would especially suck not to be able to talk openly about such topics. But things like this remind me that this is the price we pay for our way of life. Is it worth it? There's no right answer. Only a brainwashed cloud of opinions, from all perspectives, including mine.

I totally sympathize. I also suffer from Anemia and have alot of health problems that I can't get fixed cuz of lack of health insurance.

My dad also used to beat me, demean me, yell at me... :/

Terrible to hear; like a couple of others said, it gets on my nerves when people (and animals) who cannot defend themselves or speak up for themselves get abused and/or taken advantage of. You have to be really sick and twisted to do stuff like that. Horrible.
I had anemia when I was 10 or 11 (but because it's in my genes/I don't eat enough nutritious things) and it really is an awful thing; I'm sad to hear that your niece has it because I know how it feels. My case isn't that bad, but I know it can definitely be a painful and exhausting condition.

Thank goodness they are out of that situation.

I think finding out these things really put my life into perspective. I guess I was lucky enough to have my mom around when my dad abused me. She got me out of that situation as soon as she could. My niece and nephew had no one to rely on at all. I'm suprised they trust my family at all.

I don't understand people who beat their children. There are other ways to discipline children without physically hurting them, like time out or not allowing them to do something they like such as watch tv if and when they don't want to behave.

One of my step-fathers and one of my grandmothers were physically abusive to me while I was a small child and growing up, to the point where social services did get involved. So I know what it's like to experience something like that first hand.

I just don't understand why they weren't fed properly because there is assistance for mothers with children. It sounds like their mother just didn't want to be bothered with caring for them like a mother should.

Your little niece and nephew are very fortunate to have you and your mother to care for them now. It's not always going to be easy as I know, you already know Makayla, but what you guys are doing to care for them like their mother should of, is a very admirable thing to do and I'm sure they will look back one day and really appreciate all that you guys are doing for them now.

I wish you all happiness and health in the future.

There are tons of people out there like that, in some way shape or form. It's not a good thing, but it can't be prevented easily as well. One physical punishment used against my niece was breaking her arm. Hearing that put me in a rage.



And this isn't the first time kids were taken away from their mother. You'd think she would learn her lesson from the last time.



Their mother spent all of her money on drugs, alcohol, and gambling. It was easy to tell that she didn't care about them.



I think they appreciate it now. They are always saying we are awesome, and that they love living here.



Thank you.

That's horrible that she broke that baby's arm. It makes me sick thinking about it. My step-father squeezed and twisted my hand and told me to tell him when it hurt when I was five years old. He kept twisting and squeezing it harder and harder and I was crying and telling him it hurt the whole time and he was laughing at me. I believe he broke my ring finger on my right hand from doing that. It's obviously crooked and bent wrong and I remember it hurt for a long time after he did that to me. So I know there are some mean, cruel, sick people out there who gets off on hurting little children and babies and or thinks nothing of bashing them around with their fists because they can't really fight back at that age so they're easy targets. I saw some severely abused children come into the emergency room when I was working as a paramedic. It's heart breaking.

Don't get me started on the sexual abuse. Oh, how I loathe that woman!

Me neither, that's a difficult subject for me to talk about. With good reason, you do. How are they doing with school now?

Much better. They are still afraid to ask for help though, which we are encouraging them not to. They need to ask for help when they need it.

It makes me wonder why they are afraid to ask for help in the first place, I wonder if something bad happened when they did ask before? It's great to know they're with you guys now. Sometimes there are happy endings.