Such a slippery slope, legislating this kind of stuff.

I reached for help three times from the age of 14 on and was turned away with no real help given, by professionals.

It did not end until I left home at 16 and said I was not returning until the perpetrator was gone (stepfather).

He was gone in a week.

That is what it took for my mother to wake up. I can not imagine having to go to her if I were pregnant back then. Truthfully, I could not go to her for much of anything. She was absent, gone, emotionally.

The circumstances in my home were minor compared to what I have heard from many other people in my work first in child abuse prevention and now as a healer.