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 the finished site here but feel free to continue submitting feedback on the general design.
– CBG
A man who worked for both the BBC and Independent Television (ITV) has been jailed for his abuse of teenage girls up to 30 years ago. The Guardian has the main story here although sentencing will be announced at the beginning of March 2012, and most likely take into account time served. – CBG
For those of you within reach of Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY, you might want to check out the art being exhibited by survivors of sexual abuse at the 18th annual SASS Art Show on Oct. 16. Check out their website for more information and examples of survivor artwork from previous shows.
The wife wanted to go see Love and Mercy this past weekend, and wanting to be a good husband, off we went to the theater! If you’re not familiar with Love and Mercy, it is the story of former Beach Boy Brian Wilson and his mental illness. The film cuts back and forth between a…
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If you’re subscribed to the mailing list, you knew about this over the weekend, but for the rest of you, we have an announcement! Recently, I’ve come to the realization that Ken and I have had less and less time available for reading and reviewing books, or watching movies and documentaries and writing reviews for…
I think she’s right about that last point. I’ve written many times about the stories I hear, over and over again, where people don’t want to hear about child abuse and sexual abuse. It’s too sad and dirty. It isn’t very pleasant. People don’t want to know about how much sex trafficking goes on right around us every day and the hard work we could do to solve the problem. They’d rather believe conspiracy theories and look to their “heroes,” who are nothing but con artists, to fix it for them by going on rescue missions or attacking the “elites” who are supposedly controlling all sex trafficking around the world. That seems simpler than solving the problems that make kids vulnerable to trafficking: poverty, abuse, racism, a lack of support for kids transitioning out of foster care, or LGBTQ kids whom their own families do not accept.
Those are real problems that create vulnerable kids who go on to become real victims. Fixing them will require hard work and resources from all of us.
