Abandonment and rejection can also be forms of neglect. Neglectful parents and caregivers can be found in every socioeconomic level of society with the emphasis on poverty and mental illness. Neglect occurs when parents or caregivers choose not to provide adequately for the child. In some cases the abuser may be the same age or younger but has more power and misuses it. These occur when children are manipulated, bribed, threatened or forced.
Incest is sexual abuse within the immediate or the extended family.
The abuse is repeated over time with the purpose to terrorize, silence and indoctrinate the victims. Ritual abuse is something we think as unthinkable and unbelievable because of the horrors that survivors have endured as children. Ritual abuse can happen in the home, the church, the daycare center, the school, and the private places such as the barns, the garages and in the basements. The abusers always have some sort of a belief system that places a value in violence and harm to the children. Programming, torture, drugs and pornography normally play a role in the abuse.