The statute of limitations has expired on most of our childhood trauma

One of the reasons for the statute of limitations is that people want to get on with their lives and not have legal battles from their past come up unexpectedly.

The statute of limitations has expired on most of our childhood traumas. No matter your past, change is the essence of life. In order to move forward in life we need to learn to live in the present. There are numerous social problems which beset young children and often it sets the tone for the manner in which they will deal with life during adolescence and adulthood. It is important to go about examining this sympathetically, in a way that emphasizes learning but rejects the assumption that even the most awful experiences define our lives forever.

All of us have endured events and losses about which we had no choice. These include the families into which we were born, the way we were treated as children, the deaths and divorces of those close to us. It is not hard to make a case that we have been adversely affected by events and people outside our control. The idea that we have to sit and talk about the problems we face and the things we have tried that have failed imply a slow and unwieldy process that has at its core an uncomfortable assumption: We are responsible for most of what happens to us."