Growing up abused and isolated, I learned to protect myself by distancing myself and not speaking up, so I've seldom said anything about how, as a child, I was neglected, stalked, and strangled.
Maybe we were abused growing up, picked on in school, abused drugs or alcohol or were sexually assaulted.
"I was an abused child growing up into a wounded man".
At the same time, some advocates for battered women say, growing numbers of the abused, mostly women, have been arrested because their partners made retaliatory charges and the officers were unsure who the primary aggressor was.
Police found Gregory Jean Jr hidden behind a false wall, a captive in his father's house, but for four years he had been in plain sight, an abused child growing up in a Georgia suburb.
The D.E.A. has increased its fight against the diversion of legal drugs to combat growing prescription drug abuse, evidenced by the fact that almost one out of every 10 high school seniors has abused prescription drugs.
Set in Georgia in the first half of the 20th century, the story follows Celie as she grows from an abused 14-year-old – impregnated by her own father – to an enslaved wife and, finally, to a woman who learns her own self-worth, thanks to the love of a lounge singer, Shug Avery (Hudson).
This feat is even more remarkable when one considers her upbringing – a poor, sexually abused black girl growing up in the newly desegregated south, without many hopes for a grand or illustrious future.
Read The Report describes how the world's most vulnerable children - poor, exploited and abused - are growing up beyond the reach of development and often invisible in everything from public debate and legislation to statistics and news stories.
In 1984 an influential study of severely abused children stated that depressed diastatic, growing, and multiple fractures were more common in abuse than in non-abuse.
