Looking for advice- Friend is suffering from abusive parents
Hello, I'm not quite sure if I'm in the right place but if anyone could help it'd be really appreciated!!
I know someone who's- honestly, their parents are just abusive, plain and simple. Physically and psychologically both. He's been belted and beaten with a thin bamboo switch (how often this happens, I don't know). His parents pressure him to skip his meals, and constantly overload him with academic work to the point where he's burning out. He has to get up at 6:30AM to do things and as a result only gets around 4 and a half hours of sleep per day (he would only need to get up at 8 to get to school on time). He gets told that he's a disappointment and has basically just an extraodinary amount of pressure from his parents. It's arguable that it's a "cultural difference" of course, since he and his parents are East-Asian and there tends to be a lot of pressure to do well academically. Lots of kids have faced light physical punishment but this is extreme in my opinion. He's a minor, as well, so I don't know what can be done. If anyone has advice on what I could do to help him, it would be greatly appreciated !!
xx,
Cherry
Thank you reaching out. It really bothers you to see him go through this physical and psychological abuse and how he is pushed to the extremes to excel and on top of that is that he is seen as a disappointment. You would like to find a solution in order to help him. At this point, you are having difficulties finding a way to do so. Some suggestions of what you could do is reach out to him and explain how you feel. That will enable him to get a different perspective of his life and to feel the loving support that he currently is not getting. Your reaching out to him may be catalytic to him about how he feels about himself. It's a tough situation since he still is a minor. Maybe the fact that has you as a support, that will help him and you will feel better because you will be there for him. As you talk to him and get more info, more ideas for solutions may arise.
@peacefulIris56
Thank you, I'll try my best with that then
@cherrymalt01 You're welcome and I wish the best for you.
