As Theo Fleury was young and just starting out in his hockey he had a coach that sexually touched him inappropriately. If you were put in Theo Fleury shoes would you keep trying to be a hockey player and still try your best on the ice? would you let what was happening at night bother you while on the ice?
If I was in his shoes I would not be able to play on the ice because of what was happening at night would bother me and i would be scared that it would happen at night over and over again. As a young boy and getting treated so good as a hockey player and just starting his career. His parents never helped him much because his dad was a drunk and is mom was a jehovah witness he never had christmas or a birthday party and he had a lot of anger built up over time. He let most of his anger out during hockey that's why he hit so hard and could shoot the puck so hard. He got sexually touched by his coach might of made him strong because that gave him more anger and he built up more anger within himself.
I have to disagree with what you're saying. To a child yes the sexual abuse would be very confusing and devastating to him but still giving up a sport that he loved because of one experience seems to be letting the abuse control you. For the child if his parents really wanted what was best for there child they would take him somewhere else to skate instead of shielding him. If we shield children from bad events or teach them not shield what happened to them they live in fear. If we teach children to get up from bad events we create a stronger child and a stronger society. If we teach children to live in the bad we are teaching that child that everytime something comes around to knock them down to bow down to that bad events and let it overcome them.
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