Stop Using Me, Mommy!

Unless you experience or witness child abuse personally, you might not truly acknowledge the impact it has on its victims or on our society. The media often exposes the grotesque physical and sexual cases of child abuse but some children are also being emotionally abused and because we can't see it with our own eyes, we mitigate its existence and the profound lifelong damage it does. My story is a true account of a parent's emotional torture to their child against the other parent;...
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Unless you experience or witness child abuse personally, you might not truly acknowledge the impact it has on its victims or on our society. The media often exposes the grotesque physical and sexual cases of child abuse but some children are also being emotionally abused and because we can't see it with our own eyes, we mitigate its existence and the profound lifelong damage it does. My story is a true account of a parent's emotional torture to their child against the other parent; otherwise known as parental alienation. I am not a doctor, and you need not be, to recognize how denigration, manipulation, and revenge in the form of parental alienation, take over every facet of an alienated child's life. Control, revenge, and manipulations begin to flood the child's conscience and quickly take over the positive self-esteem or happiness that once was or could ever be. My book details a decade of alienation that manifested itself into physical abuse that ultimately chipped away at my stepdaughter's life, and the unsuccessful legal battles my husband pursued for the well-being and safety of his daughter. Child Protective Services, our judicial system, and even the police department , offered virtually no help rescuing my husband's innocent daughter. Justice not only didn't prevail but the lack of it enabled the mother to commit the same abuse of her next child and that child's father. Yes, this story may have car-keying, stalking, lies by the hundreds, and even arrests, but the innocent children are why I wrote this book. My stepdaughter and so many other children deserve freedom, justice and the right to live abuse-free lives.