I know I haven’t been writing much this month, it’s been a very, very busy month! However, if you’re looking for some good stuff from other survivors, there’s no better place to start than this month’s edition of the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse!
Check it out, and consider submitting your own posts in future editions!
This article has a ton of insight into why when we hear about commercial exploitation of minors, we almost never hear about male victims, despite the fact that studies show the percentage of children involved in commercial sexual exploitation is probably pretty close to 50% male. Some of the nuggets from some in depth studies:…
As shocking and dark as the details of the Duggar family and their relgious beliefs may be to many of us, it shouldn’t surprise us at all that they were so many people with a vested interest in the show, the religious organization, and the family were encouraged and even forced to gloss over the reality of what happened. If you’re shocked that anyone would go to such lengths to hide child abuse and ignore victims, you simply haven’t been paying attention. It goes on everywhere, and I hope the more cases like this one that we can bring to light, the more we’ll start to understand how horrible this is.
You should read the whole article, Dr. Jeglic does a good job describing the issue, what we do know about female perpetrators and what we don’t know. Mostly we don’t know because of this: “When most people envision a sex offender, they do not picture a woman. While the majority of sex offenders are indeed…
The Rape Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), launched in 1994 by Scott Berkowitz in association with Tori Amos, 17 years ago as of the middle of the week. To see the events lined up to mark the anniversary the link is here but there’s a general campaign asking for a donation of USD 17….
Note: This episode is from the current season ending Spring 2012 and the full plot is discussed below. CSI has had some excellent abuse related episodes in the past, even when “Blood Drops” from the very first season employed cheap shock twists. Sadly after many excellent episodes, with this episode from the latest season just ending for the…
Deliver Us From Evil cuts together footage from videotaped depositions by priests, cardinals and other church staff, parents, written testimonies and histories and grown-up victims of both genders describing the abuse suffered as children and the lengths to which the Catholic Church went in order to keep it covered up. It concentrates on one particular…
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