teaboot:

tigerach:

hi. why is child abuse so systemically normalized and why are children not trusted when they say their home life is bad

Because if people were willing to believe that children are being hurt then they’d have to accept that doing nothing and ignoring it isn’t an option and they’d feel morally obligated to do something, but rationalizing it and saying ‘oh it’s not that bad’ simultaneously frees them from responsibility while solidifying their own denial that whatever happened to THEM as a child wasn’t actually abuse and it’s easier to be in denial than to touch that messy package with a twenty nine and a half foot pole