Child Abuse Survivor Blog

  • Child safety online

    The fine folks over at Friends in Tech, a group that includes your’s truly, have updated the on-line child safety flier. Go get yourself a copy, and feel free to print it and hand it out to any parents who could use the information. Check out the links in it as well. There’s a lot…

  • Skills of Survivors

    I saw this post in my RSS reader today, and the title jumped out at me as quite a different perspective, but as I clicked over and read the post, I found a lot to agree with. It reminds me a lot about the discussions of what would be different about me if the abuse…

  • Another full Weekend

    I’ve been off-line all weekend, and a bit behind on responding to emails and what not. My brother got married yesterday, which always makes for a hectic time, between the rehearsal dinner on Friday, and the wedding going late into the evening on Saturday, leaving us with only Sunday to run errands and spend some…

  • Who do you want to be?

    I had an email conversation the other day with another survivor and they said something that I’ve seen far too many times, in one shape or other. Namely “I am a creation of what everyone wants me to be”. Most children in abusive situations become what they need to be in order to avoid the abuse….

  • We get more mail

    I got a note today that I thought my be of interest to all of you, so I’m sharing the relevant part of the email: I’m writing to introduce myself and the Letters to My Abusers Project. If you think you may be interested in publishing a letter to your abuser, you can read the…