Rejection is like a very painful disease; it can strike any one at any time. We will be looking at rejection that occurs during childhood that has a lingering pain even into adulthood. Children and adults have the need to be loved and accepted. Rejection occurs when these needs are neglected or overlooked. At the time you experience rejection, it is painful, but even more painful is the long-term affect of living as if you are rejected.

Rejection is experienced when the significant people in our lives refuse to see how important their love and acceptance really is. Rejection may come as a result of actual abandonment and neglect, or just simply a lack of affection.

Children can experience rejection, and feel abandoned during a divorce or separation when the children are separated from one or both parents. Abandonment leaves you feeling all alone and unwanted. This feeling can also be felt in a home where parents are preoccupied, and unaware that the children