These statistics are disturbing but what’s more disturbing is that the medical field doesn't recognize emotional abuse as being as harmful as physically abuse.

Everyday we interact with emotionally unregulated adults which can be traced back to some form of emotional abuse and/or neglect in the formative years, specifically mothers who are defaulted as the best parent but the evidence says otherwise. Traumatized children become emotionally unstable adults.

This isn’t about blame but if adults cannot advocate for children’s rights and hold parents and mothers accountable we as a society will continue to fall out of order.