Call for Contributors- Blog Carnival
Nancy Richards is hosting the next Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse. She’s looking for contributors and you’ve got one week, deadline is Weds. Feb 4th!
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Blog Carnival for March
I was away from the internet the past few days, so I’m just now getting around to pointing you all to this month’s Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse. From my brief glance at it today, it appears there are a few folks in this month’s edition that I am not familiar with. I’m looking forward…
What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly)
8 Reasons It’s So Hard to Overcome a Tough Childhood — Challenging, but not impossible at all! tags: CA ChildAbuse Boys and men are also survivors of sexual abuse tags: CA ChildAbuse Why doesn’t society care about male rape? tags: CA ChildAbuse Child abuse experts from the Medical University of South Carolina talk about cases…
Review: The Gathering By Anne Enright (2007, UK)
This book won the British 2007 Booker prize and having won an award, we can vouch for the dreamy quality of the writing even if we can’t attest to the degree of realism to which the overly large Irish family is depicted. From an abuse survival point of view this book, unlike the Kite Runner,…
Link – Violence is just one part of childhood trauma. So why are we focusing so much on childhood violence?
“There’s this notion in the public’s mind that physical or sexual abuse is somehow more harmful than verbal abuse or other types of trauma,” he says. “The scientific evidence does not support that. I think parsing out the impacts of different types of trauma leads to a kind of reductionism that may be neither necessary…
Adoptive Parents Jailed for Daughters’ CSA “Buy Off” by Perps
In a more recent English court case, two adoptive parents from Manchester who allowed the abuse of their daughters by paedophiles in return for money and a car were jailed following their conviction over the summer. The adoptive father also took part in the abuse of one of the girls and so received the longer…
BBC TV Documentary: Neil Morrissey – Care Home Kid Pt1 Online, Pt 2 to follow
Neil Morrissey is a successful English TV and theatre actor firstly known for the sitcom Men Behaving Badly in the 1990s which transferred across two British network TV channels from Independent television (ITV) to the BBC, and more recently the BBC School drama series Waterloo Road and the voice of children’s character Bob The Builder….
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Hey, thanks for getting the word out about the blog carnival! Appreciate it.