That's very regional and depends highly on the family, I know plenty of decent people who grew up in perfectly fine foster homes, but the child social services here are like the child safety Gestapo here. :toughninja:

Sadly I can beat that.

WARNING

I've heard much, much worse.

:huh:

Well, OP, nothing we say on here can make you do anything, so it's all up to you. If you really believe that the child is being abused, then I hope you make the right choice; one that will not make your conscience eat you alive.

In this situation, it would be best to call the authorities. Right now, the kid is getting terribly bruised from the beatings. I was abused as a child, and I can tell you things will get worse for him if this isn't stopped. The beatings will intensify. A leather belt, garden hose, or worse will likely be used on him at some point. He may get locked in a closet for days on end (without food and/or water in some instances). The list goes on. You have a chance to keep him from going through that hell. Please take it.

If you can beat what is hidden in those spoiler tags, please, for the love of god, DO NOT post it. I am literally ill feeling now after having read that. I can just see it inside my head....I feel like I'm about to vomit. alkrdjgdjkf; Blech.

That was seriously the last thing I needed inside my head. It won't go away now. I"m like shaking ><

To the OP, Please, having been a victim of abuse by my biological mother, and now knowing how much worse my older sisters had it, I truly wish someone had noticed something and called Social Services. So, call them, don't wait, I'm sure they have a 24 hour hotline that you can call and be anonymous.

It's been said a million times in the thread but call the Police/Social Services.

you can theoretically talk to your parents, emphasizing to them that you are trusting them to help but not rush anything and then tell what it is about when they say they'll try or something. then go from there. one, they should see this as you becoming smarter and mature person. two, your and their relationship will be better for it.

or get someone to call child services. someone who can handle this as a mature person.

i'd say there needs to be found a way to make the child's parent see their fault. but don't run off building a collage of evidence to provide them with. rather, see if you can find someone who had dealt with issues of child abuse. or was a child abused. ask mom and dad if you can invite them (the neighbors or the people wish to involve) over for say, dinner, or if the child is your age, maybe have him over to play video games or they are too reluctant to let him to a stranger's house, maybe play outside. or something. you and your parents, if they agree to help, build a relationship bridge that you can later get to them over and make them see the problem. you don't have to tell your parents what this is about, even(not yet anyway) and just try and make it like maybe a get to know our neighbors better type of thing. if you have a church nearby, especially if you are going there, talk to one of their leaders. they know what to do no worse than your parents. if you don't want them to get involved, then just say that some Christian(that being me) said to ask them that they and their church need to be praying for this one person and this one family in this one delicate situation and for you, since you are getting involved in this(and your parent, if you think to get them involved). and when you talk to the church leaders, you don't even have to give them details, they should understand even if you don't give them details.

Contact the authoroties right now. That or nothing, and doing nothing is the worst thing you could do.

And don't worry about orphanage, it's so much better than getting abused by those people, this kid will meet other kids who have experienced hardships and will get a good chance at getting on and getting a good life.

Watch some My Little Pony, all you need is friendship and happiness to cheer you up! C:

You gotta call the cps (child protective services) it may not make u feel better but at least u exposed his parents...

I'm speechless against this. It's horrilbe, dark and evil.

But yes, OP, call the authorities ASAP.

Call child protective services now.