ABUSE IN MY FAMILY

I have to confess to gentle readers that there is abuse in my family.

I am a single parent with two daughters 13 and 12 years old. They

are a great pair of girls, totally confident and treat their father as a

bit of a silly old man.

Their mother left us 12 years ago. She met another man and gave

birth to a daughter. But they broke up badly after about a year. She

went off to the highlands with her daughter. But about 3 years later,

she sent the little girl to her father.

About a year later, he asked to let his daughter spend the weekend

with her half-sisters. He dropped her off and never came back. She

has lived with us for about a year.

She is a mischievous child who is always causing problems. Often I

hear her wailing downstairs to find she has been smacked by one

of my daughters. The reason is that she spoke back to her. Whack.

I become angry and tell my daughters that they not were treated like

that. So why do they treat their half-sister in that way. Whack. What

happened this time? I told her to take the washing up stairs and she

said no.

I tried to shame my two daughters by calling them the ugly sisters

with the little girl as Cinderella. But it does no good. They bully me
too. If they want money, there is no point in saying no.

They look after her and get her ready for school. Her hair is brushed

by one or the other ugly sister. She sleeps at night with one of them.

But they still smack her.

Could I appeal to the lesbian advisors of AusAID or UN to have this

little girl and me taken into care? Please find us a nice family who will

take us in and look after us.