Dealing with Childhood Abandonment

Diana Waldron
4 min readFeb 7, 2022
photo at the Atlantic Ocean

Nobody talks about the pain of childhood abandonment. When someone mentions “abuse”, we almost always instantly think of physical abuse. What about the invisible abuse? Why doesn’t anyone talk about the rupture that occurs when the child’s parents are absent and neglectful?

Effects of childhood abandonment:

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Diana Waldron

Diana Waldron is a writer and a sitarist living in the Hudson Valley.