Guardian Girl Gang Member Follow-Up Article
Following on from the BBC’s report into the abuse of teenage girls in modern English street gangs, The Guardian has followed up in print on the subject. The article is here.
– CBG
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Reviews Elsewhere – What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
“Here’s a theory: Maybe I had not really been broken this whole time. Maybe I had been a human—flawed and still growing but full of light nonetheless”
I want all of us to ponder that line for a little bit and think about it. Consider the possibility that you, as a survivor, are not broken. Maybe you are just human. Maybe everything you see as broken is just a natural reaction to abuse in the same way every human carries things forward into their lives from their past. That’s not to say the harm isn’t real. Indeed it is very much real. It might not, however, have changed the possibility of our light still being inside us.
You are still human and you still have value in this world.
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Trauma Survivors Triggered By The Pandemic Have Options, Experts Say Del. teachers get training on how to spot child abuse virtually Documentary | REWIND: Family’s Secret Cycle of Child Abuse May 11 Lorenzo Lewis Is Helping Men of Color Talk About Mental Health—Through Their Barbers What to Expect When Calling a Mental Health Hotline Maintaining…
Reviews Elsewhere – 7 Books That Are Almost as Good as a Therapy Session
No, reading them won’t be the same as going to therapy, and I can’t say that I have read them all myself, but if you’ve read any of them, let us know what your thoughts were on the book.
Link – History shows abuse of children in custody will remain an ‘inherent risk’ – report
If you spend any time at all thinking about children and the criminal justice system, this is not a huge surprise. “A new report on the history of safeguarding children detained for criminal offences in the UK has concluded that it is impossible to remove the potential for abuse in secure institutions, and that the…
