How does a broken chilhood affect a person's outlook on God, life and other people?

Question

Maybe a lot of the haters and trolls had a really hard time when growing up?

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Answer 1

I hadn't really thought of it this way although I paid attention to the fact that the question got some extremely gloomy answers.
I only have to say this: you can go up or you can go down from this position. I am not even sure if it's a matter of free will.
One person gets a lousy start in life and he cannot do anything else but hate more and more.
Another one, with a similar background, rises like the phoenix from the ashes. I guess in that sense I believe in karma ...

But I also believe in the ultimate kindness of the Universe and God. I know that desperate people have decided to trust and their lives have made a complete turn.
Where there was hatred and desperation, now there is love and hope. Where there was scepticism and bitterness, now there is quiet faith and extasy.
So ... I hope for a lot of those people you are probably referring to, that their life will take such a turn. They will only have to want it.

Answer 2

It brought the reality of how insignificant I was in the world. I was not only left by both parents, I was also molested.

I would wonder, " Why did it always have to be bad?"

But there was something wlse pulling me forward. And though I was 8, I got a feeling of hope from somewhere. By the time I was 24, I was ready to kill myself. But then I gave myself to God and He broguht me the good news, it didn't have to be bad. There could be a happy ending.

Now that I am 46, I know that my life doesn't have to end. And that in Jesus Christ I can be the person He wants me to be.

I have become willing to follow Him, and the connection that I have with Him I would say is unique. So the bad things of my past makes me closer to Him than I would if I were more 'normal.'

Answer 3

My Dad a drunk,my Mother a hateful person because of working 2 jobs to support 8 kids.
Out of the 8 kids 2 are millionaires,2 are doing pretty darn good.Then 2 live a good life,1 sponges off others,1 works two jobs and is bitter.
I have been very blessed,not rich in cash.But I have A great husband,beautiful daughter,great son-in-law,and two of the best grand-kids ever.I thank God daily for my life.<><

Answer 4

"Come on, poor babe: Some powerful spirit instruct the
kites and ravens To be thy nurses! Wolves and bears,
they say, Casting their savageness aside, have done
Like offices of pity".
Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale, Act II, scene 3, line 185.

There are many recorded incidents of children rescued
from the wilderness have for centuries inspired awe,
fascination and disbelief. The reports say that if
children are left in wilderness for more than eitht
years, they will not become normal humans.

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_feralc.htm
http://www.feralchildren.com/en/index.php
http://www.occultopedia.com/f/feral_children.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsfvSWljqpc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A269840/
http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_feralc.htm
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2602/is_0002/ai_2602000247

A broken chilhood affect a person's outlook in a
similar way. The psychology does not understand it
that way. No other field of science has any interest
to this affect.

It is high time that intellectuals to do some work
in this line.

Answer 5

No doubt the child will be different from the other childrens, but if the child is bough up by the grand parents his / her mental capabilities will be better and will be able to love god and will be a normal child.
But if not surely he will be not at ease with the situation but good education and the support from one mother or father can surely help him to be a good son or daughter and even a good human being.

Answer 6

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but my own deranged childhood made me draw closer to God. My violent and abusive father killed himself. That was after my fanatically religious and emotionally distant mother died. She had often told me that I was the product of sin (she even viewed sex during marriage sinful) and that she wished I'd never been born, because I reminded her of the shameful and dirty act she committed with her husband. She didn't have to put up with me too long, though, because she was in an accident and went into a coma. Anyway, there was nobody to help me but myself, but what did I know? I was a kid. But I did have a strong sense of something being more powerful than myself. I felt great comfort in going to church, even though I was usually there alone. Prayer, taking Communion, and being surrounded by sacred art and music moved me deeply. I cannot remember one single moment of my life when I didn't have an intense faith in God. In more secular terms, I have maintained a positive outlook on life, as well as very strong self-preservation skills.

Answer 7

"Maram vachavan Thanni Utthuvan" is an old saying in Tamil., one of the Drawidian Languages. That means He who planted the sapling will also water it.

To be broken in child hood is a real misery and the struggle one undergoes to come out of it is a still greater one

My throat get choked whenever I remember being called as a son of a mad mother My mother and father were so loving to each other that we are 7 brothers and sisters, all settled well.

What occurs to me is that, every time you throw out your helpless hands, and cry out to the lord you get your solace from somewhere and there is someone to share your grief.

At times my neighbours ridicule made me more and more stubborn to shift my attention to my studies and come
out meritoriously.

After going through the answers my faith on god has gone still deeper and I feel that a service to orphans is dear to god.

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Answer 8

Not all of the people from broken childhoods become trolls. I'm happy in my life, now that I'm away from my mother. I promote peace and love as the most important things in life. In my case, my mother inspired me to be as unlike her as possible. I will never to do my family what she did to my brother and I, and what she is still doing to my dad.

My parents did not really effect my religious beliefs. I came to what I believe through years of thought and soul-searching.

Answer 9

I would imagine society plays a small part in determining one's religious convictions. I can't speak on behalf of the trolls and haters though...

Answer 10

Alot of times adversity brings people closer to God.