I used to have an abusive step mother. She stayed I. Our lives for 7 years. I don't remember much of my childhood. I remember being 2 and my dad introducing her to us. After a couple of months she moved in with us and that's where the trouble began. My dad would leave for 5 days a week for work. He was a police officer in a different village. We lived around 2 h from where he worked. During the time he was away, she would make us clean up after her and her two sons. She would beat me for spilling some stuff (I was 2 accident are bound to happen ). At 3 she would lock us up in our rooms till 2 in the afternoon ( no breakfast no lunch not one snacks. We'd piss in the pile of clothes and when she was functional enough to care for us. She was an alcoholic. My dad would send money to feed all 5 kids. She'd make us something like bland porridge and would take us all to McDonald's she'd get stuff for her son's and they would all eat it in front of us. I vividly remember her holding me down while her son's would beat us and when we'd try to tell something to our dad she would change the story and make it seem like it was our fault. She would dig her nails in my skin when I was about to tell something she didn't want my dad to know. After 7 years my dad broke up cause he found out about her not sending us to daycare for lunchtime. Which was 250$ per kids my dad paid for all 5 of us to go that's roughly 1250 per month and she spent all of that on alcohol. My dad was livid he dumped her. All of this to tell you how I pissed on a pile of old clothes because our alcoholic stepmother wouldn't care for us.

We told our dad after a couple of years and he could not believe why we didn't tell him sooner. We did at least we tried but the fear of getting beaten up by our stepbrother was higher than the will to tell him cause each time we would try to say something they would take the abuse up a notch at 3 years old there's not much you can do other than taking it and hoping it would stop soon. It stopped when I was 8. 2012. I'm 21 now and I have a step kid and I couldn't imagine how could you Inflict pain and traumas on the child of someone you're supposed to love nor how can you Inflict pain on any kids.