Interesting look at survivors of sexual abuse, and the things they can do in their college years, to start their healing process.
Sexual abuse survivors often begin the healing process during college years
Thanks to the author for dropping me an email about it!
Former national president of Male Survivor.org, Curtis St John, was interviewed on Oprah Winfrey’s Radio Station and a section of the interview was archived at their site. Since we don’t know just how long the clip will be archived, if you’re a male survivor of abuse, we strongly recommend that you listen to it as…
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.
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Every survivor has the freedom to choose how, when, and in what detail, they want to share their story. You can ask for more, but you also have to respect the survivor’s choice to not answer. They don’t owe you that. The only time it’s really even appropriate to press for details if you’re a criminal prosecutor trying to help the survivor bring the abuser to justice.
Outside of that very specific situation? No, we don’t owe you anything. You can support a survivor without knowing all the details. In fact, respecting their boundaries around what they decide to share, is one great way to support them in their healing. They’ve already had too many people not respect their boundaries.
