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
Just for the balance of showing it’s not just America that has fundamentalist pressure groups, The Guardian carried an article in its Saturday 23rd June paper regarding a UK pressure group that think Gay Marriage will lead to incest, a great way to trivialise child abuse in general even further than wasting two years on a…
I’m not in Australia, obviously, but if you are, the Survivors and Mates Support Network is having a launch fundraiser on July 4th. From their site: Survivors & Mates Support Network (SAMSN) is a not-for-profit organisation working to increase public awareness of the effects that childhood sexual abuse can have on men in their adult…
THE BULLYING EPIDEMIC – WHAT YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN NEED TO KNOW tags: CA Childhood Maltreatment Can Leave Scars In The Brain tags: CA Child Abuse: ‘It’s not something you can talk about at the school gates’ | Mail Online tags: CA 7 Ways to Heal Your Childhood Trauma tags: CA Why Do Flashbacks Happen?…
The Psych Approach – NYTimes.com ” Childhood stress can have long lasting neural effects, making it harder to exercise self-control, focus attention, delay gratification and do many of the other things that contribute to a happy life.” tags: CA Blog Against Child Abuse – September 2012 Edition tags: CA Sibling Abuse – Children Abusing Other…
“It isn’t what you think.  The most damaging aspect of child sexual abuse isn’t the abuse.  It’s what the abuse does to you emotionally and psychologically.  It’s the hidden burden you had to carry for too long.  It’s that shameful secret. Here’s how it works.  My stepfather was a great guy.  He was nice to…
How often, as children, did we decide to “fly under the radar” and not draw attention to something that brought us happiness because that just created a target? How many of us, as adults, still live with the fear that identifying something that makes us happy only invites someone to hurt us by taking it away? Even when there is no one there to take it, we live with that fear and don’t get too attached to anything.
My hope for all of us is to find a safe place to overcome that and enjoy the things that make us happy.
