My name is Haosha Du, and I’m a fourth grader. I enjoy going to school, and my favorite subject is math because I think it’s interesting. I like to solve tricky problems and discuss things in a group.
My father and mother fought because of me. They even wanted a divorce. I was young then, so I had no idea what was happening. I remember one day, my mother told my teachers and asked for leave for school, and she asked me to choose between her and my father. I chose my mother, and my father beat me. The other day, when my father told me to do my math homework, I didn’t know how to do it, so he beat me again. Whenever I do things wrong, he beats me. I don’t remember why he hit me; I only remember that it hurts. My father also did this to my mother on rare occasions. This was long ago, and my father hasn’t visited me again for ten years. I can’t contact him and don’t know where he is. I never heard from him again. But whenever this excruciating flashback comes up, I feel painful. Just the thought of him hitting people is traumatizing. It took my mother several years to find her current husband and rebuild her family.
「Haosha Du is a child of a reconstitution family. She witnessed the divorce of her biological parents and domestic abuse and lives in a conservative community situated in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. She experienced a lot of anguish that words cannot tell. She doesn’t like to smile, and her teachers told us she is very introverted. But every time she talks, her big bright eyes always firmly glare forward.」
- Haosha Du
China
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