Following the revelation of child abuse allegations at Jesuit schools in Germany, now similar charges were levelled at Catholic Schools in the country, with one survivor testifying to his experiences.
The Associated Press report is located here.
– CBG
There have been many programmes screened during Child Abuse Prevention Month, whether by accident or design. We’ll try to cover as many as possible them on our spring catchup in the News and Reviews section. However we’ll restart with the fact that Breaktheabusecycle.com has gone out of Beta and has launched. You can now view…
I’ve seen this time and time again. As men, we might even be told that we should be open to our emotions, but there are still very few spaces for men to show emotion. Sports is one example of a space where we can show excitement or disappointment. Sometimes, we can show more complex emotions, but only in romantic relationships—never with friends.
He also discusses the limited range of emotions usually deemed acceptable for men. Note how anger is one we are allowed to have and how it gets used as the cover for several more complicated emotions. That might also explain why men with depression don’t come across as sad but angry and thus don’t get diagnosed with depression as often as women. It doesn’t “look” like the depression we see in the media.
We’ve spent so much time looking at lists like this one, looking for the bad people, and that is absolutely part of abuse prevention. Still, we’ve missed the boat on what might be the most significant tool in our prevention toolkit, taking the target off kids by connecting with them as parents and with other trusted adults—helping them be less vulnerable.
Kids who don’t have secrets make terrible targets for abusers. Kids with support and secure relationships aren’t easily manipulated and aren’t too eager to please adults.
We need our kids to be more of that, starting with having close relationships with the safe adults in their lives.
If you’re in the UK you can catch an episode of Louis Theroux LA Stories titled “Among the Sex Offenders”. Documentary. Louis Theroux spends time in the twilight world of Los Angeles’ paroled sex offenders, who live under force of tough regulations As a non UK resident I cannot watch it but if you happen…
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