You must be strong to have pulled through from that. What a dreadful thing to have gone through. My job indirectly deals with many single mother cases. When people think of child abuse, they think it's only committed by priests. This is so incorrect. Most child abuse is perpetrated in single mother families, from her legion of live in boyfriends. Stepfathers are often abusers as well. Divorce and single motherhood is indeed a scourge upon society.