These children were not just hurt repeatedly but violated in every way. Society has a duty to listen to children and to believe them. Society has a duty to intervene in families where there is violence and to keep the children safe. These researchers deliver this report in the hope that society will listen. Distrust of others is therefore an understandable long-term response to human interactions, or to be more specific, interactions with adults.
Most women have good healthy relationships with their children.
They are comfortable sharing their experiences with their children, but feel inadequate as parents, being overprotective and paranoid. Their desire to give their children what they did not have as a child makes the women as parents self-analytical and fearful of their doing the wrong thing with their children. Women on such low incomes require free counselling and support services to address their childhood traumas. Low incomes do not afford opportunities for healthy lifestyles with adequate diet and exercise regimens. Women on such low incomes and with limited work opportunities require free, accessible, confidential and long-term support services where they can keep the one counsellor over the years necessary for their recovery.