A man describes why he stayed in an abusive home for years after a caregiver tried to stab him and beat him severely. Children often have nowhere safe to go, even when the violence becomes unbearable.
I got, just got too big. I was turning into a 6-foot, you know, 180-pound young man and I just did not want to be told what to do anymore. You know, something happened. I was, there was attempted violence with a knife. Someone tried to stab me, one of the people that were raising me. And, you know, I got beaten up pretty bad and I just wasn't gonna do it anymore. So I think, That was part of it. But then I still stayed in that environment for many years. And that's one thing I don't think people understand about the nature of trauma, particularly to a child, is you have nowhere to go.
