I’ve recently added a couple of new links to the blogroll, and thought it would also help if I mentioned them here as well, so that you could go visit and welcome these new survivor-bloggers.
First was Seething Consequence, a poetry blog, and then secondly was Living With Child Abuse, which is gathering up great information and resources, as well as sharing Tara’s story.
Hope both of you keep up the good work!
Male Rape and Child Abuse charity Survivors UK launched a new ad campaign at the start of the week, mounting large posters on London’s Underground subway system and also at the city’s busiest train station Clapham Junction. The Daily Mail and New York Daily News have the story here and here. Hopefully the money spent on this…
Last week, Channel 4 broadcast The Paedophile Next Door, in which they not only looked at the issue of child sexual abuse, but talked to a self-confessed, but non-abusing paedophile. Phil over at the All that is Solid… blog wrote up a detailed review of what was discussed and the issues it raised. In the…
I’m willing to bet the reason this is true is that we’ve struggled to define verbal abuse: “Currently, four subtypes are used to categorize child maltreatment: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect. Verbal abuse is noticeably absent. Of those four, a June 2023 study of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among U.S. adults found…
“All I know is that every survivor has a right to tell their story because we did nothing wrong.” However you decide to tell your story, whether it be publicly on the internet or in a memoir, or privately to a few friends, you should never, ever be ashamed to tell it. As Rachel says,…
I know we’ve touched on this topic more than a few times, but I don’t think we can repeat it enough. The article below has some really good advice, but maybe none more so than this: Building a foundation of trust, where the child feels safe all of the time, can build the safety net…
Dozens of people have contacted the BBC about abuse they suffered as children after four ex-footballers spoke out on the Victoria Derbyshire Programme. This fact is so important. As a survivor, you are not the only one. The statistics do not lie, there are other survivors all around us. Here are just a few of…
