Abuse in the US Military Report
The Virginian Pilot has published an article on sexual abuse in the US Military. Read it at the website here.
– CBG
The issue of Childhood Sexual Abuse, particularly in the Scottish Ethnic Minorities, has been raised in a documentary form for the first time. The documentary film ‘Hidden in Silence’ has been produced and directed by Nauman Qureshi, Director of Dawn Films (UK) and Dr Javita Narang, Researcher from Edinburgh University’s Clinical Psychology department. The documentary…
Apologies for the delay today, looks like there may be some technical difficulties with getting the post automatically from Diigo to here again! Psychological effects of bullying can last years Shattering myths about child sexual abuse 1in6 Thursday: Secondary Survivors Abusive parents: What do grown children owe the mothers and fathers who made their childhood…
Whatever your opinion of the family and their beliefs, the girls were underage victims who deserved the anonymity that we would expect any underage victim to get. If we allow this to go just because they were famous, or we don’t really like the family anyway, then we are sending the message that not every child who was sexually abused deserves their privacy.
The Guardian has published an interesting article about why it’s dropping the terms “child porn” or “child pornography” from its style guide. It’s a timely article considering that there always seems to be some kind of loaded language game going on when discussing child abuse survivors. For example we have some journalists reporting on “coming…
Liam Adams, brother of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, is to be extradited following child abuse claims by his daughter, two years after the allegations surfaced in a TV documentary. The BBC has the updated story here and the historical background from last year is on the Daily Mail website here. – CBG