Summary: As mothers we must be vigilant and protect our children from predators; but most of us do not think we to protect them from, sexual abuse, from their own fathers. Maralee McLean share her story of her 12 year battle to protect her daughter. <br> <br> <br> <br> Welcome to the Transform Your Mind blog and podcast, I'm your host coach Myrna Young and today I am speaking with Maralee McLean. Maralee is going to be talking to us today about her experience with, sexual abuse, from a parent. This is a very personal story for Maralee and I applaud her braveness and her transparency. <br> <br> I've spoken several times on the show and this blog, of my , sexual abuse, as a child. I wrote a book about my story <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Out-Snares-story-hope-encouragement-ebook/dp/B013C71KHE" target="_blank">“Out of the Snares, a story of hope and encouragement”</a> So what I hope to do today is help Maralee bring awareness to, sexual abuse, in the home by family members. <br> <br> <br> <br> This nightmare became real for Maralee McLean, and her book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Prosecuted-But-Not-Silenced-Courtroom/dp/1683507800" target="_blank">“Prosecuted but not Silenced”</a> details it. The entire narrative of “protective mothers”, mothers who have to share custody of their children with dangerous, abusive men; defies belief. People with background knowledge of the plight of protective mothers will recognize many themes of Maralee’s story- Woman falls in love with a “nice guy” who turns violent, uses the divorce to unleash a previously unimaginable level of cruelty and violence, and a court system so blinded to this evil and to the needs of children, they facilitate it. But for those who still find Maralee’s story beyond belief, there is almost a hundred pages of appendices providing the actual documentation mentioned in the chapters of the book, as well as background on issue.<br> <br> <br> • This book deals with child, sexual abuse, It’s impossible to write a book about child, sexual abuse, without describing child, sexual abuse, there are some concrete and medical description of child, sexual abuse, Readers easily triggered by that should skip through those descriptions, but by no means should they not read the book.<br> • In some ways, this book is the strongest testimony to the mother-child bond I’ve ever read. It’s also a testimony to why that bond should not be broken capriciously, and why a system that does, cannot be tolerated. This book deals with how our society is willing to sacrifice children on an altar of egos and ideologies. And it illustrates why that must stop.<br> <br> <br> <br> There's lots of these cases today of protective moms that can't protect their children, so that's one of the reason I'm telling this story. I had I've been married to a, Domestic Violence abuser, and I really got out of my marriage carefully. Before we got married there were no red flags or books out there to tell you about these kinds of men. I thought a woman had be physically abused for it to be domestic violence. I didn't understand control and emotional abuse and psychological abuse. I suffered all those abuses. I tell young girls today, especially in college, if they see red flags, run because if they marry that guy and have a child with him, you're in this for life because that child will be possibly abused. I not saying, sexual abuse, but abuse in other forms. <br> <br> My red flags were that he would be a perfectly nice guy and then his eyes would change in an instant to scary evil looking eyes. <br> <br> We were married for many years before I had a baby but once I divorced him, there was a lot going through the divorce in itself. I mean I was stalked, emotionally abused, some physical and psychological. He would write editorials to the newspaper about our divorce and they would print them and they not even true. <br> <br> <br>
