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“They’d officially diagnosed Janie with child abuse syndrome. People always assume sexual abuse is the worst kind of abuse that a child can endure, but it’s not. It doesn’t have the kind of lasting effects that you see in kids who’ve been severely neglected. Don’t get me wrong. Sexual abuse is terrible, but the type of neglect that Janie experienced? That affects brain development.”
“Children of trauma are experts at triangulation.” “Triangulation?” I asked. “The child will act a certain way with one parent and a different way with the other parent. They try all kinds of things to drive a wedge in the parents’ relationship.”
She crawled up on my lap and whispered in her sweet voice, “I like hurting people. Do you?”
“I have to protect my family,” she said. “But she’s your family.” “No, Christopher. She’s not. I didn’t adopt her—you did.”
She ate with this one
