This is a post for people who grew up with an easy childhood and think that everyone had it like them.

There are parents out there who will let their child’s uncle use them for sex. There are uncles out there who will let their friends use their niece/nephew for sex.

There are narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths, and murderers who have children and treat them the same way they treat anyone else.

I can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve met people who think that all parents are the way they think their parents were, and just sort of go quiet when I tell them about this sort of thing.

Yes: children are neglected. Children are unloved. Children are beaten. Children are raped. Children are traumatized throughout their entire childhood, and the people who did these horrible things to them just fucking get away with it because naive people who think these things don’t happen, don’t report it. They think, “Oh, that’s such a rare occurrence that surely someone else will report it.” Meanwhile, everyone else who witnesses it, thinks the same thing.

And so children are neglected and abused and their abusers never face repercussions. It’s far more common than many people think.