Unlike physical abuse, being emotionally abused doesn’t leave you with visible scars or bruises that can be easy to detect. In the U.S., every ten seconds, a report of child abuse is made. That means on a yearly basis, this involves more than 6.6 million children who are affected. Emotional abuse weakens the individual’s emotional development and sense of self-worth that can have lifelong damaging effects. Here are 10 signs of emotional abuse from parents
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Script Writer: Catherine Huang
Script Editor: Steven Wu
Narrator: Sarah Widmann
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Sources and citations:
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Wolff, C. (2017, June 8). 11 Signs You Had An Emotionally Abusive Parent & It Still Affects You Now. Bustle. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
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