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Staying Together for the Kids

My Opinion on Why I Think It Is Wrong

By Audrey WoodsPublished 6 years ago 4 min read
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I write this story because I am a child from a household that stayed together for the children.

Growing up, I can remember never liking my father. Before I get to telling you why, let me tell you the little bit of the history I know of my father's past.

My father grew up in an abusive home. If you can think of the word and throw abuse behind it, that is the exact home he grew up in. He has so many brothers and sisters that I have never met because of this and, to be honest, I don't want to meet them.

Now to my side of the story. We moved around a lot, because my father was in the military, so hardly any of these stories take place in the same household.

One day I remember my mom sitting and crying against the wall. At this point, I was too young to understand or remember much, but my father had told us that it was because we wouldn't behave. I can tell you I hardly doubt that was the reason why.

One year after my father came home from overseas, or wherever he was, he had brought us home some toys. I can only remember the one that my twin brother got and the one I got. My brother got a Polyworld and I got an alarm clock. I am pretty sure we were still in elementary school. He told me the reason he got me the alarm clock was because I was the oldest and I was going to have to start waking up on my own. Now I know this doesn't seem too bad, but I was a kid, I wanted a toy to play with as well.

I remember one night my parents came home from a military ball and I heard yelling coming from my father's mouth and I heard a bottle smash into a wall and shatter. That scared me, my brother and both sisters, why wouldn't it?

I remember many times our father would tell us to clean up our rooms or he would send us to boys and girls homes and we might never see each other again.

There was a large period of my life where I didn't even have a proper cover; I slept with a Little Mermaid sheet and that was all.

One year near Christmas, I had a room that had only a cover dividing it from the rest of the house. My dad told me and my sibling to go in there while they brought in and hid our Christmas presents. The next thing I know, my clumsy sister falls beyond the curtain and she is spanked for that stupid reason.

When I was in school, I was always placed in the IEP classes and I remember my father taking me into our garage at the time and drawing on the dry erase board a diagram of how stupid I was.

There were many times my father would tell me and my sisters that we would end up becoming whores when we grew up and telling all of us that we would never amount to anything.

There is much more to the stories, but I will end it there. Now my father acts like all the stuff he has said to us, and done, he has never done. He thinks he is god and talks to strangers telling them this. My mother asked us why we have never told her any of this stuff while we were growing up, but how are we supposed to know that is not how a father is supposed to act towards their children when that is the only one we know?

Now the thing is, if you are with someone who is abusive to you, think about what they are saying or doing to your children. Just because they are the biological parent to the child does not mean you have to stay with them, and if you think you cannot make it on your own, think again because you can always do something. Don't stay with that person because of the children, because the only thing you are doing to your children is hurting them.

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