Adults: don't talk to your parents like that! they deserve unconditional respect, love, and obedience even though i've never met them and have no idea what kind of people they are
Adult schoolteacher: Do you want me to call your PARENTS and tell them how you were behaving? *assumes parents aren't abusive*
Adults: family is awesome!
Adults: blood is thicker than water!
Adults: your parents love you!
Adult media producers: *create thousands of stories where families love each other ~~no matter what~~*
Adults: It's really easy to get out of abusive families! just tell an adult Adults: *don't teach kids how to recognize abuse*
Adults: *normalize physical abuse as 'discipline'*
Adults: It's hard to take anything kids say seriously haha
Adults: *takes abusive parents' word over their kids'*
the reason why this happens is because children are scared that if they tell tell someone they will be taken away, it is never as simple as they hate their family and want to go somewhere else because they are abusive, because maybe they like where they live, their pets, their school! A lot of children are worried they will end up in care and no one will want them. People just assume that everything is okay and that your parents wouldn't do it but no one knows what happens behind closed doors, only the child and the parents