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FlourishAnyway believes there is a playlist for but about any situation and is on a mission to unite and entertain the globe through song.

Spread awareness virtually domestic violence and child abuse with a playlist of pop, rock, and country songs. Exist role of the solution.

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The Dangerous, Ugly Cycle of Domestic Violence

Chances are that you know someone who abuses his or her partner or children. They could exist a relative, coworker, neighbor, someone you go to church building with, even your child's instructor or bus.

Perhaps you want to dismiss that as an unlikely possibility or as someone else'due south problem. However, domestic abuse crosses all socioeconomic, demographic, and religious boundaries. Here's the ugly truth:

• Every nine seconds in the Usa, a adult female is browbeaten.
• 10 million American children are exposed to domestic violence each yr.
• Long-term impacts of child abuse include higher risks of smoking, drinking, and sexual activeness at an early historic period; illicit substance abuse; criminal activity; teen pregnancy; developed psychopathology and suicide; and fifty-fifty eye and liver disease decades later.
• Children who grew up in calumniating homes are at a three-fold risk of perpetuating the cycle.

Outside of the secrecy of home, the vast majority of abusers are constabulary-abiding citizens without criminal records. However, the trauma that they inflict can last a lifetime.

I way you tin can help spread sensation almost the epidemic of domestic violence and child abuse is through music. Make a playlist of pop, rock, and country songs almost this painful, moving topic that impacts so many lives.

You can too be attentive. Lives may depend on yous noticing and reporting what you lot run across. (Click here to learn about traits and warning signs of abusers or hither regarding what to practice if you think someone is abusing a child.)

i. "Physical Affections" by Martina McBride

This eye wrenching 2002 country song features an abused little daughter who packs her own lunch and walks to school in the aforementioned clothes she wore yesterday. She hides bruises and the atrocious hugger-mugger of how they got there.

Although a teacher wonders about the child's domicile life, no i dares to enquire or intervene. Without a lifeline, the sad little daughter becomes a cemetery concrete angel, eyes cast skyward. Her spirit flies away to a place where she is finally loved.

2. "Cherry Wine" by Hozier

Conveyed from the perspective of the battered partner, this 2016 pop song highlights the confusion, justification, and self-blame felt in abusive honey relationships. The narrator is involved with a woman with an icy stare and a bad temper, and he unfortunately mistakes her outbursts as love:

The way she shows me I'm hers and she is mine
Open hand or airtight fist would exist fine
The claret is rare and sweet equally reddish wine.

three. "Luka" past Suzanne Vega

Corruption victims often provide similar rationales to others for their wounds: "I'thou clumsy" or "I walked into the door once more." Those are some of the reasons the protagonist gives for her injuries. She is a young girl named Luka, and she addresses a downstairs neighbor in her apartment edifice who must've heard the abuse belatedly at dark. Dutifully trying to protect her abuser(southward), Luka tries to convince the neighbor that it's all under control.

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The 1987 pop tune became an international hit. This was the same twelvemonth that lawyer Joel Steinberg and companion Hedda Nussbaum were charged with the beating and subsequent death of an illegally adopted vi-year-old child in their care. The case received national attention.

Steinberg ultimately was convicted of manslaughter but is out on parole today. Meanwhile, Nussbaum, a dilapidated person herself, escaped punishment and now lives under an assumed name.

4. "Never Again" by Nickelback

Children who are trapped in their parents' abusive marriages experience more trauma than their parents understand. In this 2002 rock song, a child describes his drunken father using his female parent every bit a punching bag. He subsequently instructs her to tell the emergency room nurse that she slipped and fell.

When the violence repeats itself, the battered woman pulls a gun on her husband in self-defense. All of their lives are almost to modify permanently.

5. "Alyssa Lies" by Jason Michael Carroll

Based on a true story of a little girl who was abused, this 2007 country vocal was then emotionally grueling to write that information technology took the singer-songwriter two years to complete. It also gave him migraines.

The tune portrays a girl whose school playmate lies to classmates and others nigh her bruises to protect her abuser. The daughter realizes something is incorrect and asks her father why Alyssa lies. Before the male parent could report the suspicions to authorities, the classmate had been beaten to death past her abuser.

vi. "Because of You" past Kelly Clarkson

This 2005 carol reached the top of the charts and became an international hit. Information technology describes the lasting affect of growing upward with psychological abuse. The narrator attributes her overcautious, untrusting tendencies and fear of taking chances to her begetter. The harsh criticism she endured has left her with a deep sense of shame.

One-quarter of all adults study having been physically abused as children.

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7. "Behind the Wall" by Tracy Chapman

Every dark the neighbor in this 1987 popular song hears the screaming and loud voices in the adjoining flat. From experience, she has learned that it's pointless to telephone call the police because nothing will exist done.

Not existence able to help makes her feel victimized as well:

And when they arrive
They say they tin't interfere
With domestic diplomacy
Between a man and his married woman
And equally they walk out the door
The tears well up in her eyes.

viii. "Kiss With a Fist" by Florence + The Machine

These two so-chosen lovers need to exist separated for their own safety. Neither love nor affection is supposed to physically injure, but the narrator in this 2008 pop song doesn't understand that.

She and her lover trade escalating hits, punches, slaps, and even broken bones. They confuse their mutual violence for love or something like information technology. Hey, break it up, go get healthy, and don't date anyone until you practice. (Florence Welch alleges this vocal isn't about domestic violence, but I'm not buying it.)

nine. "The Petty Girl" past John Michael Montgomery

Fifty-fifty if you aren't religious, this 2000 country song will tug at your center. It describes the young daughter of an alcoholic male parent and drug-fond mother. The child thought she was fending for herself.

Poorly parented, the girl was left lone to picket television all day while her parents battled each other and gave in to the worst of their substance abuse. During the virtually unbearable moments, she hid in fearfulness behind the family sofa. That's where she crouched when her enraged male parent turned a gun on both her female parent and himself one dark, making her an orphan.

In her foster home, she went to Dominicus schoolhouse for the first time and saw a moving-picture show of Jesus on the cantankerous. Immediately, she recognized Him every bit the same man who hid behind the burrow with her that fateful dark.

10. "Run for Your Life" by The Beatles

When you call back of The Beatles, chances are the first thing that pops into your mind is not the misogynistic death threat in this 1965 rock song. However, let's exist honest: Mr. Peace and Honey, John Lennon, did hit women and children.

Primarily a Lennon composition, this sinister ditty speaks for itself:

Well, I'd rather see you lot dead, trivial girl
Than to be with another human
You better keep your caput, little daughter
Or you won't know where I am.

11. "Warrior" by Demi Lovato

The narrator in this 2012 popular song recalls experiencing childhood trauma, a criminal act that changed her forever. She regrets that she was forced to grow up too fast and for so long felt broken and bruised. However, now, she wears her pain similar a battle scar and describes herself as a warrior and a survivor.

Studies testify that ane in five girls and ane in 20 boys is a victim of child sexual abuse, although these numbers could be college because such abuse is often non reported.

12. "Hush" by Hellyeah

Frontman Chad Greyness and others like him accept grown up within an abusive environment that many of us tin can merely imagine. This 2014 heavy metallic vocal is virtually that hell. Information technology describes what can go on in emotionally and physically unsafe homes: insulting names, beatings to the bespeak that the narrator peed his pants, screams, and strangleholds.

The song was meant to spark conversations nigh domestic violence. Chad Gray wanted others who had experienced abuse like he did to know that they are not alone. He too had this bulletin about domestic violence:

Life is full of forgiveness, and I've had to forgive to live a more than settled life. So forgive, lay down your arms, be a amend person and take a stand with me.

13. "Gunpowder and Lead" by Miranda Lambert

Don't attempt this at home. In this sassy 2007 country song, the narrator was beaten by her alive-in lover. At present, she'southward toting a loaded gun and is seeking revenge.

After topping up on liquid courage, she waits past the front door with a loaded shotgun, cigarette hanging from her lips. She'due south waiting for her abuser to return from his all-too-brief stint in jail.

Ominously, she warns, "His fist is big, merely my gun'due south bigger. He'll notice out when I pull the trigger."

fourteen. "Ii Beds and a Java Machine" by Savage Garden

Trapped in a human relationship where she's a man punching bag, the woman in this haunting 1999 popular song often takes her kids and escapes the abuse, fifty-fifty if it's merely for a short time. They spend the dark in inexpensive hotels with two beds and a coffee machine.

Unfortunately, with groceries and other bills, she feels the economical pressure to keep returning home. She wonders how they will ever brand information technology through.

fifteen. "What's the Matter Here?" by 10,000 Maniacs

Bystanders are so afraid to get involved, but that's ane reason why an estimated five children dice every day from child abuse and fail. Natalie Merchant, who wrote the song, based it on a real family unit who in one case lived nearby.

The 1987 stone vocal profiles a woman who realizes that her neighbors are abusing their immature son. She hears the threats of violence and sees their one-half-naked child run into the chiliad, looking for a identify to hide. Rather than calling authorities, even so, she hesitates, struggling with whether to speak upwards or continue to heed her own business. What would you practice?

16. "Church building Bells" past Carrie Underwood

This darkly entertaining land vocal from 2015 tells the story of a poor but beautiful girl, Jenny, who married a millionaire. Notwithstanding, the trouble was this: he was an angry and tearing drunkard, and all the money in the world couldn't make upward for that fact.

Eventually, Jenny grew tired of existence on the receiving end of blackness optics and bruises, and so she slipped a permanent solution into her old man's whiskey. And so they were even.

17. "I'm OK" past Christina Aguilera

According to this 2002 pop song, when you grow up in a habitation where at that place is domestic violence, reaching adulthood is similar surviving years living in a combat zone. The bruises and marks fade, but the guilt and anguish have left permanent scars. Despite her father's abuse against her female parent, the narrator provides reassurance that she'southward made it out okay.

18. "Love the Way Y'all Lie" by Eminem (Featuring Rihanna)

The push and pull of a mutually addictive, roughshod relationship—that's what this 2009 vocal is about. And the artists who sing information technology should know a affair or ii well-nigh the topic, as they've each been involved in toxic love affairs.

The international chart-topper depicts the cycle of violent aggression between lovers, the lies that it volition never happen again, and the justifications for not walking abroad from the unhealthy relationship.

1 in iii women and 1 in 4 men take been victims of physical violence past an intimate partner inside their lifetime. - National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)

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nineteen. "Rearview Mirror" by Pearl Jam

Home is supposed to be a safe place, simply the young man in this 1993 rock song has endured years of beatings, humiliation, and fear in that location. Equally he drives away from the horrors of his by, he feels emancipation, and he sees the abusive situation more than clearly in his rearview mirror.

20. "Oh, Mother" by Christina Aguilera

This tender pop song from 2006 addresses the narrator's mother who was a victim of spousal abuse for years. Her mother covered upwards her own cuts and bruises, but when her husband turned his violent rage on the kids, she decided that was it. The narrator thanks her mother for her bravery and reassures her that together they will always pull through.

In the United states, there is a one in three chance that a high school aged girl experiences violence in a dating human relationship.

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Even More Songs Near Domestic Violence and Kid Abuse

Song	Artist	Year Released
21. Janie's Got a Gun	Aerosmith	1989
22. His Easily	Jennifer Nettles	2014
23. Black and Bluish	Mindy McCready	unreleased
24. Pulling Teeth	Green 24-hour interval	1994
25. Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?	The Offspring	2008
26. Devil in a Midnight Mass	Billy Tallent	2006
27. Independence Twenty-four hours	Martina McBride	1993
28. Levi Stubbs' Tears	Billy Bragg	1986
29. Proficient Plenty	Sarah McLachlin	1993
30. Daughter	Pearl Jam	1993
31. Holy Water	Big & Rich	2004
32. Johnny Go Angry	Joanie Sommers	1962
33. Good day Earl	Dixie Chicks	1999
34. Call Me Guilty	Jazmine Sullivan	2008
35. Hell is for Children	Pat Benatar	1980
36. For The Dearest of a Daughter	Demi Lovato	2010
37. Blown Away	Carrie Underwood	2012
38. Broken Daughter	Matthew West	2010
39. Steven	Jake Miller	2013
40. 11th Commandment	Collin Raye	1998
41. Karate	Brad Paisley	2013
42. Girl	Destiny'southward Child	2005
43. Dear Male parent	Black Sabbath	2012
44. Nobody Wins	Jodeci	2015
45. Tell Me Why	Taylor Swift	2008
46. Leave	Michael West. Smith	2010
47. He Striking Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)	The Crystals	1963
48. xxx Infinitesimal Break	The Luka Country	2014
49. Love Mr. Jesus	PowerSource	1986
fifty. Open up Wounds	Skillet	2003
51. Blindside and Blame	R.E.M.	1994
52. Don't Go out Me Now	Pinkish Floyd	1979
53. Amy in the White Glaze	Brilliant Eyes	2006
54. Crawling	Linkin Park	2000
55. Inquire Me	Amy Grant	1990
56. Practise You lot Know Where Your Children Are?	Michael Jackson	2014
57. Delinquent Honey	Ludacris (featuring Mary J. Blige)	2006
58. Sleep	Stabbing Westward	1996
59. Candyman	Siouxdie and The Banshees	1986
60. Evening Shade	Dolly Parton	1969
61. A Child Called "Information technology"	Buckcherry	2008
62. Oh, Begetter	Madonna	1989
63. Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me	Motorhead	1993
64. Nowhere to Stand up	k.d. lang and The Reclines	1989
65. Easily Clean	Alanis Morissette	2002
66. Daddy's Little Defect	Sugarcult	2001
67. Blanch	Alanis Morissette	2002
68. I Would Exist Stronger Than That	Faith Hill	1993
69. A Man's Home Is His Castle	Faith Hill	1995
70. Black Eyes, Bluish Tears	Shania Twain	1997
71. Hotter Than Hell	Dua Lipa	2017
72. Barbarous Beloved	New Found Glory	2014
73. Cold Case Beloved	Rihanna	2009
74. Hey Men	Men Without Hats	1989
75. In The Night	The Weeknd	2015
76. Russian Roulette	Rihanna	2009
77. Blindside Bang	Nancy Sinatra	1966
78. Footling Toy Guns	Carrie Underwood	2015
79. Daddy's Girl	Scorpions	1993
fourscore. Yvette	Jason Isbell	2013
81. The Stairs	Reba McEntire	1987
82. Ultraviolence	Lana Del Rey	2014
83. Praying	Kesha	2017
84. Elastic Heart	Sia	2015
85. Please Don't Believe Me	Terry Sue Crawford	2002
86. It Shouldn't Injure to Exist a Child	Hollow Hearts Ft: Calli Kathleen.	2012
87. Daddy, Did You lot Know?	Lelica	2011
88. Only Women Bleed	Lita Ford	1990
89. Face Downwardly	The Ruby Jumpsuit Apparatus	2006
ninety. Delilah	Tom Jones	1968
91. Mother Dear	The Supremes	1965
92. Alive	Pearl Jam	1991
93. Sarah Yellin'	3 Doors Down	2002
94. Justified Black Eye	Tony Sly	2004
95. Revenge	Papa Roach	2000
96. What She Had to	Lonestar	2006
97. I Am, I Feel	Alisha's Attic	1996
98. Woman in the Wall	The Cute South	1989
99. Broken Fly	Martina McBride	1997
100. Facade	Disturbed	2008
101. Her Demon	Hollow Hearts Infectious (featuring Calli Kathleen)	2015
102. Father of Mine	Everclear	1998
103. Miss Me More	Kelsea Ballerini	2018
104. Too. Beautiful	He Is We	2018
105. Show	Tara MacLean	1996
106. Old Apartment	Barenaked Ladies	1996
107. Re-Offender	Travis	2003
108. Blue Flashing Light	Travis	2019
109. Copper Bullets	The Alert	2017
110. The Terminal to Say	Atmosphere	2011
111. Milk & Cookies	Melanie Martinez	2015
112. Perfect	Alanis Morissette	2005
113. Mary Jane	Alanis Morissette	2005
114. Give Her the Gun	Dio	1993
115. I'yard So Lamentable	Nico Collins	2019
116. In Hell I'll Be in Proficient Company	The Dead South	2014

Children who experience abuse and neglect are 9 times more than likely to become involved in criminal activity.

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FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s.a. on May 26, 2020:

Pray - Thank y'all for sharing your story. I wish you all the all-time in your time to come. Please take good care of yourself and those y'all love.

Pray on May 25, 2020:

I know just how bad it is to exist abused my father did drugs he passed three months ago my mother abused me I had no friends I had zippo, but in six months I will be getting adopted and I at present have a young man who means the globe to me

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s.a. on May 22, 2020:

Mandy - Thanks for the song recommendation.

Mandy on May 21, 2020:

Nether Your Spell by The Altogether Massacre is very powerful.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on April 13, 2020:

Peggy - Information technology's sad to realize how prevalent it is and how we all probably know someone who is or has been a victim.

Peggy Woods from Houston, Texas on April 12, 2020:

Those statistics regarding domestic violence, also equally kid abuse, are terrible. It is so sad that so many people endure the results of having experienced it. I never realized that it spurred and then many songs. I guess I should not exist surprised.

FlourishAnyway (author) from The states on Apr 01, 2020:

Katie - Thank you for this song recommendation. I added it.

Katie on March 31, 2020:

Hold on - Nissim black

FlourishAnyway (author) from Usa on February 16, 2020:

Dan - Thanks for the suggestion. I'm adding the vocal.

Dan on February 14, 2020:

Requite her the gun by Dio

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on February 04, 2020:

Raiukage - Thank you for these recommendations.

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s.a. on February 04, 2020:

Katt - Thank you for the suggestions. Looking at the lyrics of her songs is then agonizing. You wonder what inspired that kind of creativity.

Raiukage on January 31, 2020:

Perfect, past Alanis Morisette. Psychological rather than physical, but I still remember the chills I felt the showtime fourth dimension I heard it as a kid.

Also, Mary Jane, from the same anthology.

Katt Jones on Jan 31, 2020:

I have a listing:

A Million Men

Instructor's Pet

Show & Tell

Mrs. Potato Head

Tag, You're It

Milk & Cookies

Dollhouse

by Melanie Martinez

(Mentions sexual abuse & harrassment, diplomacy, bullying, & child abuse & endangerment)

Just two proper noun a few of her songs cuz there's and then many of them.....

FlourishAnyway (author) from Usa on Jan 28, 2020:

Zack - Yes, it is -- in Korn fashion. Thank you for the suggestion. It'due south and then sad when people inflict violence on others, particularly those they are supposed to love.

zack on January 28, 2020:

daddy -- korn

be warned, it'south SUPER messed upwardly and graphic

FlourishAnyway (writer) from The states on December 27, 2019:

Lucia - I've added your song proposition. Please be prophylactic and know that you deserve respect and love in your life, not violence. It'south better to exist without a partner than to take an abusive one. All the best to you, sweet lady.

Lucia on December 25, 2019:

Last to say but atmosphere. While in an calumniating relationship myself one of my friends I reached out Afterwards to showed me this song.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on December 05, 2019:

LaustCawz - Thanks for your annotate. That Judith Leekin was a horrible woman. I tin only promise that she will receive justice in one way or another. Jail is corking enough for a person similar that. I have a narcissism and arrogant cocky-love playlist (although not necessarily restricted to parents): https://hubpages.com/playlists/The-Narcissists-Pla...

LaustCawz on December 04, 2019:

Flourish Anyhow--Re: "Luka":

Suzanne Vega wrote the song using the proper name of a boy who lived in the same building she did. He showed no testify or sign of having been abused, just she wanted to write a song about the event.

Btw, if you tin can notice a spare moment, I suggest you research a much more than invisible form of corruption--narcissistic parents/guardians. Besides, expect up the queen of kid abuse (but apparently only towards the many children she adopted)--Judith Leekin.

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states on Nov 17, 2019:

Jimmy - Thanks for the annotate. She has displayed force and courage moving on from a hard circumstance. Sadly, as well many young people are in the same situation she was, but perhaps she gives them a guiding example of emotional survival.

jimmy on November 13, 2019:

kelly clarkson wrote her song because of you lot in nether 25 minutes at the age of 16 as a way of coping with her parents' divorce. Additionally she had a troubling relationship with her father I think.

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states of america on November 10, 2019:

Anna Lou - Thanks for the suggestion. The story behind that is a sad one and the one told in the rap is really tragic.

Anna Lou on November 09, 2019:

May I suggest Love is Blind by the rapper Eve

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on October 21, 2019:

Lugann - Thanks for the suggestion which I have added. I can encounter the parents' concerns only they're artists with a message.

Lugann on October 18, 2019:

Copper Bullets by the Alarm. Astonishing when you consider the writer (14 or xv at the time) and her sisters had to dispute information technology'due south inclusion on the album they were recording. Their parents felt the content was a flake much for young teens to have penned let solitary, lay down the track.

FlourishAnyway (author) from The states on October 18, 2019:

Krista - Ruddy Wine is already on the list at #ii, but I added 2 of the other suggestions. Thanks for your comment and take a great weekend.

Krista on October 17, 2019:

Re-offender and Bluish Flashing Light past Travis

Take Your Time by Sam Hunt

Cerise Wine by Hozier

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on July 31, 2019:

shenard - Thank you for the suggestion!

shenard on July 31, 2019:

What about KoRn "Daddy?

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states on May 16, 2019:

Lachlan Dark-brown - Thank you for the suggestion which I added. Although the band alleges it'due south about nostalgia for living in an one-time place rather than domestic violence, I don't purchase that. The references to punching the hole in the wall and tearing the telephone out of the wall suggest violence, non "memories." Thanks!

Lachlan Brownish on May 14, 2019:

Old Apartment by Barenaked Ladies

FlourishAnyway (writer) from Us on May xiii, 2019:

Lachlan Brown - Thank you for the proffer.

Lachlan Brown on May 12, 2019:

Torn by Natalie Imbruglia

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s.a. on Apr 20, 2019:

Bill Tell- Thank you for this song recommendation which I've added.

Nib Tell on April 20, 2019:

"Evidence" by Tara MacLean should definitely be included in this list. It is a powerful song. "Can you hear the child in tears, Whose paradise was taken from his hands?" and "Tin can you hear the child in tears,

Whose innocence was stolen from her hands?" speak for themselves.

Robert Sacchi on March xxx, 2019:

Yeah, that seems to fit ameliorate.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on March 30, 2019:

Bob - I'm going to add this to the playlist of songs about stalking and obsessive love if information technology'south not already on in that location. Thanks for the suggestion.

Robert Sacchi on March 29, 2019:

What nigh "Delilah" by Tom Jones.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on March 29, 2019:

Thousand - Cheers for this suggestion. I'm adding information technology. Be well and spread the message that domestic violence and child abuse are unacceptable.

M on March 28, 2019:

A song that I think would really fit in this list is also beautiful by he is we. Check information technology out

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states on March 24, 2019:

babs181 - Give thanks you for that suggestion. It certainly speaks to all the emotional manipulation of domestic violence.

babs181 on March 23, 2019:

Non sure if this has already been mentioned, just Kelsea Ballerini, miss me more is my new anthem

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on February 16, 2019:

poozybear - I'grand so sorry yous had to deal with this (and will e'er deal with its legacy). Unfortunately, when it comes to parenting, people can only requite to their children what they have. A mentally ill parent similar your mother doesn't necessarily have the advisable emotional resource to share. I hope you are working with a proficient quality professional therapist to assist you work through the impacts. I hope yous observe peace, emotional and physical safety, and positive, fulfilling relationships and then the cycle of abuse is broken. Cheers for sharing. All the best, FlourishAnyway

poozybear on February xvi, 2019:

I had a mother with NPD who subjected me to emotional abuse, sabotage and gaslighting. The lyrics in the Everclear song that speak to me (and to others who accept suffered similar abuse) are:

I will never exist safe

I will never exist sane

I volition ever be weird inside

I will ever exist lame

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on February 16, 2019:

poozybear - That's a sad child abandonment song. What'south saddest is that it was autobiographical for the lead vocalist of Everclear. I'g sorry that you can relate to it.

poozybear on February 15, 2019:

Ane I've always related to, nigh child corruption:

"Father of Mine" past Everclear

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on February 10, 2019:

Xen - Thank y'all for your listing of vocal suggestions. I've had a adventure to become through them and have added them to the appropriate playlists, including the playlist virtually perfection and struggling to exist perfect; stalkers and obsessive love; and losers and failing. Even the ones that didn't fit may have sparked an idea or two for future playlists. Thank you! I appreciate you!

Xen NGU on February 08, 2019:

IDK how fitting these are but I recollect they do.

Daddy Jewel

Numb by Linkin Park

Perfect by Alanis Morissette

Skyscraper - Demi Lovato

Spiderwebs - No Doubt - stalking harassment

Amy by Dark-green Day - Amy Winehouse'southward who was abused

The Kids Aren't Alright by The Offspring

Wrong Way past Sublime

Polly by Nirvana - a serial rapist abducts fourteen yr sometime daughter

Mother by John Lennon

I am certain I accept more in my drove...my life experiences have given me a sensitivity and I tend tie songs into my personal broad definition of corruption. Even when others do not see the context.... Like songs virtually toxic relationships and bad break-ups, songs nigh self abuse..

Well expert list, I had most of those myself but I got a few new ones and was remind of some...like Indepence Day..I totally forgot and I loved that song when I was a child.

I hope to hear back on my suggestions if you think they work. I can extrapolate more too.

Xen

FlourishAnyway (writer) from U.s. on February 03, 2019:

Drew - There is tragic underreporting of domestic violence and kid abuse across the spectrum, and males (particularly grown men) are certainly among the invisible victims. In my professional and personal life, I have encountered several men who take been battered (albeit at that place were dozens of women too). We all know someone, whether we realize it or not.

My intent hither in this playlist is to simply enhance awareness. The atomic number 82 photograph had to portray someone, and I chose a photo with a female considering the statistics indicate that females are the victims of reported abuse at higher rates. This is not to minimize the feel of males.

You're right that women tend to perpetrate sure types of abuse at slightly higher rates than men. Boys as well have higher rates of fatality from kid abuse than girls. Nevertheless, information technology's important not to brand broad inferences that women are chiefly responsible for this epidemic, this cycle of violence. Nosotros ALL must own this tragedy.

I tried to be careful to present data from credible sources such as the National Coalition Confronting Domestic Violence and bookish journals, to provide statistics for both males and females, and to use gender-neutral language such every bit "partner" where appropriate. If I roughshod short, I hope you'll consider that it was designed every bit a playlist rather than an article on domestic violence per se.

Wishing y'all well. Give thanks you lot for your comment.

Drew on February 03, 2019:

Thanks for this listing but I desire to say something simply I'one thousand non trying to sound like a jerk I virtually did not go through this listing when I first came to this considering the very kickoff thing I saw was a picture with words in information technology and it was giving usa the statistic of domestic violence victims and it only gave one statistic and that was domestic violence against women. I merely think it is 2019 and we know that men are almost victims of domestic violence as much as women and that women are fully capable of doing just as much damage if not more so than men we also know that children that are abused take a fifty/50 chance of either condign another abuser or they are the complete reverse end of the spectrum. Child abuse statistics evidence that young boys are abused at a much higher rate than girls and that the abuse washed to young boys results in death much more frquently than what is done to girls. We also take learned that well-nigh child abuse is committed by the mother similar seventy-something percent information technology'southward outrageous. I think all this shows some type of causation here. When women abuse their children they start the cycle and are largely responsible for creating the animal that grows up and becomes an abuser of women and then information technology's and then much more complicated than just saying men just beat women it's nothing like that it's never been like that we just didn't admit information technology or realize it until recently. Perfect case of this up until only a few years ago in the United States the very definition of rape was gender-biased information technology was specific to women being a victim which sent a message that if you were a human you couldn't be raped or sexually assaulted but if you include prison rapes and you should because it doesn't affair where it happens rape is rape men are victims of sexual assaults more than women I think things like this that draw attention to the subject are wonderful simply seeing its 2019 we demand to become our human activity together and quit being gender-biased about this stuff considering we're not that impaired anymore this is not 1945

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states on January 23, 2019:

Kate - This is atrocious and I'm sad that both of you have had to endure this abusive behavior. She can't possibly be well plenty to work or exist in whatsoever fashion outside the home. It does sound similar you have a plan, although I hate that you both have to wait that long for information technology to come to fruition. Delight consider calling the resources listed above in the article. You don't accept to motility every bit far abroad as Federal republic of germany, just to another state and cut contact with her. Most of all, accept care of yourself.

Kate on January 21, 2019:

Candle Queen adequately accurately depicts my mom's mental attitude and life path. Everything, from a dropped plate of food, to a stubbed toe is deserving of a full on crying meltdown. Nosotros are expected to say goose egg, fifty-fifty requite her emotional support, or else nosotros're "abusing her". We're also expected to do everything for her (she doesn't view it that mode).

She gets upset nigh the most arbitrary and harmful ( to us) things. Example: she gets upset every time my underweight half-dozen'2" teen blood brother (he looks like a stick) tries to eat. She won't make food, she won't let him to make food, she wont buy anything (similar carrots or apples) that don't require prep, and she won't let him to leave to consume. I try to slip him as much food as I can manage when I come home from college (where I practise my own shopping). Its a like situation with laundry.

If you don't recall it is abuse, I just started having roommates this past term. They go on observing weird beliefs from me. I keep expecting them to verbally set on me for pocket-sized infractions. I apologize more than than most people. I continue trying to clean for them when they start cleaning, I take to stave off a panic assault every time someone comes into the kitchen while I am cooking, weird crap like that.

I am graduating from higher in 6 months. My brother leaves for college in 9. She has nigh a year to figure her stuff out earlier I become enough money to live in an apartment. At that point, I will exist letting my brother crash at my flat during the summers, and once I take enough language skills and coin saved up, I am moving to Germany (I alive in the US).

FlourishAnyway (author) from Usa on January 05, 2019:

I - Cheers for the suggestion.

I on January 03, 2019:

Peradventure Superheroes by the Script?

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states of america on December nineteen, 2018:

Katie - Thanks for the song suggestion which I am calculation. Please take practiced care of yourself. If you are in crisis, please contact 911, the National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-Safe (7233) or the Childhelp National Child Corruption Hotline 1-800-4-A-Kid (ane-800-422-4453). I'm sorry this topic resonates with yous.

Katie on December 18, 2018:

Dorsum again with another vocal suggestion: Her Demon by Hollow Hearts & Infectious ft: Calli Kathleen.

This one really hits dwelling house with me.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on November 12, 2018:

Bill - Thank you for the proffer. I added it for our metal fans. Accept a adept week.

Bill on November 12, 2018:

Facade past Disturbed is another one, for those who like heavier music.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on September 26, 2018:

I'mTryingtoSurvive - This hurts my centre to know that it's going on in your domicile. You are admittedly non to blame for this, not i iota. Please tell a responsible developed, whether that is your mother, another relative, trusted teacher or school advisor. Yous tin also contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-Rubber (7233) or RAINN's National Sexual Set on Hotline at 800-656-Hope(4673) or chat online at https://hotline.rainn.org/online/. My kindest thoughts are with you dear one.

I'mTryingtoSurvive on September 25, 2018:

My stepdad is sexually and verbally corruption and I hate the thought of someone else going through what I have to go through. I feel like some people just don't realize how often information technology actually happens

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on September 24, 2018:

Asbjørn Søllested - Thank you for the song suggestion which I accept added at 95. Take a great calendar week. Be happy and well.

Asbjørn Søllested on September 23, 2018:

Revenge past Papa roach?

FlourishAnyway (author) from Usa on June 20, 2018:

StayCSarcastic - Cheers for the vocal proffer. I take added it to the playlist. Be well and have a good week.

StayCSarcastic on June xix, 2018:

Justified Black Heart - Tony Sly (Audio-visual Version)

FlourishAnyway (author) from Usa on June 16, 2018:

Harleen - Thank you for those additions. I appreciate you. Have a good weekend.

Harleen on June 16, 2018:

Here'southward 2 more than: "Alive" by Pearl Jam and "Sarah Yellin'" past three Doors Downwardly

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on June 09, 2018:

Cynthia - That'southward so sad. How in the world does one always gain that trust when so many boundaries have been violated? Thanks for sharing your experience working with survivors.

Cynthia Zirkwitz from Vancouver Isle, Canada on June 09, 2018:

Skilful job, as e'er, in researching the music that goes with emotionally-wrenching life events. "Luka" really stood out for me-- I was working in domestic corruption at the time, in a shelter with children who had been to hell and back, seeing their mothers beaten, being neglected and driveling themselves. I of the saddest stories I ever heard was from a young woman who was abused past her male parent-- physically, emotionally, sexually-- and no 1 ever intervened. She trusted no one.

Robert Sacchi on June 09, 2018:

Yep, definitely. http://www.autism-society.org/

Heather, does your cousin live about y'all?

FlourishAnyway (writer) from U.s.a. on June 09, 2018:

Robert - Heather might also consider local, regional, and national Autism organizations such equally the Autism Society of America. Or contact an chaser.

Robert Sacchi on June 09, 2018:

Heather, that's horrible. Are other family members aware of the situation?

Have you contacted your local ARC chapter

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on June 08, 2018:

Heather - Don't give up. Start writing messages and send them certified mail, marked "URGENT." Keep a re-create. Ship a copy to the Governor if you must.

Heather on June 07, 2018:

my iv year old cousin who's autistic and cant speak is starved beaten and neglected. Ive told all the and so called right people and all they say are "deplorable about that": Someone needs to do something before its to belatedly.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on Apr 29, 2018:

Dear Janey - Your personal story is so important for others to read. Someone who is shut to me has experienced and even so experiences threats of violence to herself and her children from her mentally ill husband (whom she is divorcing). I include her story here: https://hubpages.com/problems/Divorce-and-Intimate...

Continue to be strong and vigilant and know that you are not alone. Thank you for sharing your story and then that others tin realize they are not lone either! All the best to you.

Janey Finnie on Apr 29, 2018:

Hi I was a victim of Domestic violence for 13 years I accept now been away from him for ii years I had to get a restraining society against him for three years but he still manages to corruption me the police take being looking for him for 3 weeks. The country I nevertheless take to live in is bad but it's not hell living with him was hell but every time I walk into my hallway I weep because of all the locked and bolts all the way up my door I'chiliad embarrassed to have anyone over because then they'll call up I'm paranoid but the police done a hazard check on my ex partner and because the scores he hit were high there just trying to keep me safe till they find him simply I urge anyone who'due south beingness abused both mentally and physically there's lots of help out there and the abuser never needs to no about the help you're giving even if they phone you and your abuser is sitting with yous they're highly trained like I had a prophylactic give-and-take like if I said I'm already with a good phone provider they would know my abuser was with me so they would just say thanks for your time goodbye, that really helped me and. I'm not saying it's easy because it'due south not only it'southward and so worth information technology I've had times when I've wanted to go back with my ex only didn't sympathize why that was intill I was told to google toxic bonds then it fabricated sense I wasn't missing my ex my body and hormones were getting messed up because the toxins the body releases after the abuse information technology's very interesting infact I call up teenagers should be taught at schoolhouse what happens in abusive relationship considering a lot of immature people confuse the chemicals that yous're trunk releases you think that you lot love the person GOOGLE TOXIC BONDS and so you'll all no what I'grand pregnant I started going with my abuser when I had merely turned xvi so I was pregnant within weeks simply if I had known virtually toxic bonds I wouldn't have stayed with him but I had to walk my path and it's only made me a stronger person thanks very much Flourish the playlist helped me sending my prayers dear and hugs to everyone may honey and light Bless Apply ALL.

Robert Sacchi on March 25, 2018:

You're welcome.

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s.a. on March 25, 2018:

Bob - Thanks for the song proffer. I've added it to both this playlist and the following playlist about stalkers, creepers, and obsessive love: https://hubpages.com/genres/50-Songs-About-Stalker...

Robert Sacchi on March 25, 2018:

Would Delilah fall into this category?

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on March 24, 2018:

Aaron - Thanks for that song proffer. I've added information technology to the list at #89. Accept a expert weekend.

Aaron on March 24, 2018:

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Robert Sacchi on March 05, 2018:

You're welcome,

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on March 05, 2018:

Bob - Thank you for your kind comment.

Robert Sacchi on March 05, 2018:

These are powerful songs. Many of them made a definite impact. You did well by posting this article.

FlourishAnyway (author) from The states on February 16, 2018:

Katie - Thank you lot for these suggestions. I take added them. I wish you all the best. - Flourish

Katie on Feb 15, 2018:

"Please don't believe me" by Terry Sue Crawford or Alan O'Mean solar day.

"It shouldn't hurt to be a kid" by Hollow Hearts Ft: Calli Kathleen.

Simply a few more than.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on February 05, 2018:

imscared - Adding this vocal. Thank you for the suggestion. Be safe.

imscared on February 05, 2018:

Elastic Heart past Sia definitely works for this situation

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on February 05, 2018:

hatingmydad - Please reach out to the domestic violence hotline listed in this article 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) so that you'll attain someone caring, trained, and able to talk to you lot one-on-one. Y'all exercise not deserve to be abused, and there are people who care. Abuse can take immediate impacts upon a person'due south prophylactic, plus long-term impacts upon a person'due south cocky-esteem and how well they are able to part in the world. Please telephone call that number.

hatingmydad on Feb 05, 2018:

Im driveling daily. I don't know who to talk to and I don't like my dad. I dont know what to do. But I know i wanna stay here at home. idk what to do.

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states of america on November 13, 2017:

Tracy Pierce - Although not intended near domestic violence or kid abuse, this song is definitely advisable for the topic. Thank y'all for the suggestion! I've added it as #83.

Tracy Pierce on November 13, 2017:

Praying by Keisha

FlourishAnyway (writer) from U.s. on October 27, 2017:

Catherine - I'm so sorry to hear that y'all were a victim a child abuse. I think if more people stood up and self-identified, then other victims wouldn't feel and so isolated and lonely. Thank you lot for sharing.

Catherine Giordano from Orlando Florida on Oct 27, 2017:

What I love about your playlists is that you so oftentimes call attending to important issues. Child abuse and spousal (mainly wife) abuse are such important issues. Thank you for shining a spotlight on this. I read the intros, but I couldn't bear to mind to the songs. I was a victim of child abuse and I still suffer the effects of it.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on October 26, 2017:

Anna - If you're talking about HP, I merely publish and they choice it up or don't. Then every two weeks you can submit them to one of the niche sites using the buttons at the top of your hub. Hope that helps.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on October 26, 2017:

Shyron - Thank you so much for your kind words of support. I hope it raises the sensation I imagined. Thinking of yous. Take a practiced calendar week.

Shyron E Shenko from Texas on October 25, 2017:

I tried to search my memory for a vocal(s) about abuse and came upwardly empty. This is a great hub and it should help people become aid if they are being abused.

Blessings my friend.

Anna Haun from USA on Oct 25, 2017:

Thank you. Where is anybody submitting manufactures? I've worked all day trying to submit manufactures.I submitted to search engines today.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on October 25, 2017:

Anna - Thank you. You lot are brave. I wish you peace.

Anna Haun from U.s.a. on October 25, 2017:

Thank you. If yous always do a follow-up story near the victims of abuse, you lot can interview me. I don't write on the topic, the closet I came to that field of study was human trafficking.

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