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    Default Can You Sue Your Parents for Long-Term Physical and Emotional Damages

    My question involves court procedures for the state of: Ohio

    I've seen other topics on here like "Suing your parents won't make things better" which I understand. I'm in therapy long term which I can barely afford because I'm an adult. The result of their abuse cause severe psychological damage long term. PTSD (which yes I can prove) which also led to physical disorders due to the constant stress that I am under. There are also several medical problems that I cannot afford to take care of because of this that they could because they have a lot of money. Once again I get that suing people is not the right answer but you need to understand that I believe they willfully and intentionally did this to me, I have a lot of proof to that degree, and they also aren't my parents I'm adopted. I want to know if there is a statute of limitations on doing this. Mostly because it took them years to figure out I had PTSD due to the fact that at a young age my parents got me diagnosed with something I completely didn't have and I was led to believe that was my problem for years until I was able to find a psychiatrist of my own (not connected to them) to get another opinion and officially diagnose me with what I actually have. Their gross negligence in my childhood led to several physical complications (such as ignoring medical issues that had they been treated properly at the time wouldn't have grown exponentially into the problems they are creating for me now). Is there a possible chance at a civil suit against them because right now I'm really hurting for several reasons, I know I could build a very good case against them, my father is a big enough "pillar of the community" he might just settle out of court to avoid a huge trashing of his name in the papers and I'm not doing it to be petty. I'm doing it to pay off actual medical bills that I've paid out of pocket (and gone into debt for) because of their failure to do their job as actual parents when they should have been taking care of me.

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    Default Re: Can You Sue Your Parents for Long-Term Physical and Emotional Damages

    Yes, they're your parents. Adoptive parents are just that - parents.

    I'm not unsympathetic to your plight, but I doubt very much that you'd be able to prove what may or may not be the root cause of your current problems.

    I'm sorry. I see no case here.

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    Default Re: Can You Sue Your Parents for Long-Term Physical and Emotional Damages

    If CPS wasn't called and you weren't removed from your parents home, then what you call abuse, wasn't abuse. You can't blame you parents for everything that goes wrong in your life. You're an adult now, so you are responsible for your own bills. You need to work on your anger over being adopted and learn to accept it. You could have spent your childhood in and out of foster home, but instead you were chosen by your parents to be their child. They could have chosen another child, but they chose you. And since you think your parents are such terrible people, it makes no sense that you would want to go to the expense and time involved in trying to sue them. I'm willing to bet that you couldn't find an attorney to take your case anyway. If you did find some attorney somewhere willing to do this, I'm also willing to bet that your parents will take it to court. They have nothing to hid, so why wouldn't they stand up for themselves?

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