ABUSE!!!

I was watching the Oprah Winfrey show yesterday late in the night, where an interesting topic was discussed which was the sexual abuse of young children.A guy at the age of 46 came forward to tell his childhood story of physical abuse. I was terribly shocked to see that  he was physically and sexually abused by his own mother. I could never ever imagine a woman doing it to her own child as I come from a land where woman are being worshiped and women do tremendous sacrifices to bring up their kids.The way the person explained was heartbreaking as his mom would beat him if he does not co-operate and all this happened at the age of 8-9 where kids hardly know the meaning of the adult things going on in the world.The sad part the kid thought it was normal to be intimate with one's own mother and everyone does the same. How innocent that could be?.Maybe that's the innocence which was exploited by the mother.He was scared to get out of the house as he had a younger brother and sister and his mother would start continuing the same with his brother. Of course, they were rescued from this brutality by a missionary church and was given all the help in the world to forget or block the memories of this cruelty.I admired the person's courage to come forward and admit about this and his confidence to move forward in his life and be a father himself today. Hats off to him and his family!!!