During childhood, personal identity begins to build and most emotional traumas are generated, any negligence on the part of those responsible or any situation that causes a certain imbalance in the environment will cause serious problems for the little ones, one is called child theft.
The theft of children can occur in many ways, but there are two manifestations that we must be aware of, the first is the feeling that there was no childhood, it is as if this stage had not been lived, as if it had been lived. The second, however, refers to an inner void, something that is missing, but which we do not know how to explain.
- “If parents don’t work on their childhood wounds.
- Their children will live this very painful childhood.
- “Anonymous?.
Can child theft happen on the part of family members Does this usually happen to caregivers or close relatives, such as siblings, uncles, grandparents?The acts they perform affect minors, despite the conviction that in the future they will not remember what happened. . Let’s look at some testimonies from real people.
Natalia was only 5 years old when her father told her that no one loved her and that prostitution would be her future, her father, her uncle and her mother’s boyfriend sexually assaulted her until, at 11, she told a friend she thought she was pregnant. Thus began a whole process in which others began to understand everything that had happened to him.
The psychologist who accompanied Natalia said, “This is the person I’ve seen most about the consequences of abuse, and I’ve worked with her for many years. She froze, ran out of speech, left, hasn’t she spoken or moved?Although Today Natalia has a normal life as a couple, including children, she becomes concerned if one questions her past. A past that still hurts. Child robbery perpetrated by his father, uncle and his mother’s boyfriend.
“She no longer differentiated between affection and sexual contact. Was Natalia’s psychologist sexualized?”
Another case is that of Patricia, who had an experience in which, after years of abuse by her mother by her father, there was a separation. However, custody of her and her younger brother has been handed over to her father. She was only six years old and her brother four. In his own words he says:
“He once threatened to crash the car with us inside. He kept saying he was going to take us to a hostel. He even called me on the phone and said, “Pack your bags that will pick you up, because that’s where the kids nobody wants to be taken. “
The above cases are an example of childhood theft, but there are also other ways to harm a child from a young age: being manipulative and abusive, in addition to neglect or emotional abandonment, all these situations cause a break in balance that should prevail and have serious consequences in adulthood.
When a person claims they had no childhood and barely remembers things when they were little, they generally don’t have a solid foundation for developing their identity, an unstable foundation that sometimes doesn’t exist. Even if you stand out one way or another in life, will you still be taking those moments you don’t want to see?All those related to emotions, self-know-how and relationships with others.
The theft of children also causes the development of some emotional dependence, especially in people who have been abandoned by their parents, others develop a terrible fear of sex or, as with Natalia, are unable to differentiate between affection and sexual contact.
Some of the attitudes presented by adults who have been robbed of childhood may include suppressing emotions, inability to mention people who have harmed them, or denial of what happened, among others.
Healing these emotional wounds takes years of work and, in most cases, a specialist. Recomposing the pieces of a broken, trampled and battered childhood requires extraordinary effort.
“Everyone has some painful wounds buried in their hearts. Are they able to move on and, over time, become insensitive to pain?Kim Bok Joo
The child’s childhood theft is very serious, it is adults who believe that their children understand nothing, who have the power to do what they want, or who consider small objects as mere objects to play. They do not realize that the true evil they are doing is in the emotional realm, an injury that lasts for years and that, when presented, surprises everyone, a pain that, therefore, needs to heal and forgive to move forward.