How many of you were abused as a child? How many still suffer from the abuse so many years ago.? How do you deal with it? Children should be loved and given support. I never felt love till I was twenty five and it came from another family. I have PTSD and still deal with the abuse. I am lonely, have never been married, and have lived in poverty all my adult life. Does anyone know why parents abuse the handicapped child and let the other children be loved?