Monte Mader

Oh, my frozen hose.

We would be sometimes I would be bruised from my bra line to the back of my knees.

And not be able to walk well for a few days.

And so it was very... And when he remarried my stepmom, it actually got worse.

And so it was a really tough environment to go through.

But the reason I went to boarding school in high school was because...

of the abuse at home and for me anywhere but there was better and my brother came the next year and we both went through part of middle school and high school in this teeny tiny school in a cornfield because it was safe for them being home he and I my younger brother and I are the only siblings that were raised our whole lives together

And at one point after my dad remarried my stepmom and we moved, we were forced to live in a dark basement for two years and we weren't allowed to be upstairs in the house.

We were only allowed to come upstairs if we were leaving or going to school, um, or to clean it for her.

And we also like she would any, any small infraction, like you miss a spot scrubbing the floor, you miss something in the shower.

Everything was a beating.

So my younger brother, Travis and I got out as soon as we could get out.

Actually, my grandfather was vicious.

Um,

But the corporal punishment side of it, again, in Christian nationalism, they're very pro spank your children, break their spirit.

This was during the time of like my dad was a big James Dobson follower who talked about, you know, you have to break the spirit of your children.

He called toddlers little tyrants, you know, instead of little people that are trying to learn what it means to be human.

Yeah.

So my dad was very much in that.

So he felt that corporal punishment was like required, that it was necessary to raise your children properly.