thanks everyone, but my mom does know about it, and when ever i get in trouble at home she sends me to him. they have been divorced since i was two. but the beatings started when he started drinking...i was about seven. but it is only me he takes his anger out on...unfortanutley my siblings know too. my older brother used to want to help me but he kind of moved on as he got older. and my younger siblings are too young to really understand it right now. i have been hoping the beatings would end ever since my first one which gave me eleven stiches and a cast. but no hope is there any more, i feel very helpless.