A reader found Adoption Under One Roof seeking the answer to the question:

Where is God when your child is abused?

As someone who was severely abused as a child, I have wrestled with this question for years. I have written about this topic extensively on my personal blog:

• Getting Past Feeling like God Deserted You after Child Abuse
• Shouldn’t God be Expected to Protect Children?
• Where is God During Child Abuse?
• Where Was God When I Was Being Abused?
• Why Would a Loving God Allow Pain and Child Abuse?
• Words of Wisdom from “The Shack”: Where is God During Abuse?

After wrestling with this question for years, here are the conclusions that I have drawn in a nutshell: