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Link – Online Threats: How predators lure children, others on the web
Yet another reminder, don’t just leave kids on YouTube or any other platform with no guidance, and no involvement from an adult doing it along with them. “A stranger was able to communicate with the child through YouTube messaging because the child was viewing the site alone on an account that had been set up,…
Sharing – NEW Rural Mental Wellness Toolkit
We know from previous posts that there are places in the US and Canada, where there simply aren’t any mental health resources. Rural areas show up in that list often, so I am glad to share this resource:
Link – Child abuse scandal reaches top of Brazilian football
It’s a mixture of things that create the perfect storm, if you will, for predators. Families living in abject poverty, with an opportunity to escape it through a boy playing youth soccer and advancing in his career. Those types of situations are ripe for abusers to take advantage of. “And many would never dare to…
Sharing – Queer survivors of sexual abuse are frequently blamed for their own victimization
I’ve talked about this before. As a male survivor, I have spent years on this site dealing with people that simply assumed I was gay, for no other reason than the fact that I was abused by a male perpetrator. I’ve known plenty of other men who’ve been shunned because of a similar assumption, or the much worse assumption that survivors, especially male survivors or gay men, are likely to turn around and also sexually abuse others.
None of this is accurate. Yes, the abuse can leave you feeling unsafe and uncomfortable in your own body and with your own sexuality. That is a side effect of being raped sometimes. That is not something anyone should be ashamed to talk about and no matter where they land on the spectrum of gender and sexual preference they deserve the respect and privacy to figure that out themselves. None of us asked your opinion, and none of us want to hear about your own illusions of how sexuality works after being sexually abused at a young age.
The more mature attitude is to recognize that healing from sexual abuse is a process that looks different for everyone, whether they are gay, straight, bisexual, non-binary and any other thing you want to consider. We all deserve a better response than to be accused of bringing it upon ourselves.
Sharing – Toxic Childhood? 10 Lessons You Must Unlearn in Adulthood
I found this entire article to be really interesting, because what child abuse survivor doesn’t struggle with this exact thing in one form or another? “The hardest part of recovering from a toxic childhood isn’t just coping with the fact that your emotional needs weren’t met or that you were actively neglected or even marginalized,…
