The Children’s Commission Report described abuse against 2409 children in the months leading up to October 2011. The BBC reported those selected findings last week but there is the usual useful collection of other angles at the end of the article, here.
“If you think a child may be in danger, don’t wait to report it, because it could mean the difference between life and death. “It takes a community to keep children safe, and children really do need adults to advocate for them,” says Howell.” Don’t try and decide for yourself. If you suspect abuse, say…
Spoiler Note: This is an ongoing soap opera and this week’s unfolding plot, starting Tuesday 8th November, is discussed below (so apologies to BBC America viewers) This week one of the UK’s top-rated soaps, Eastenders, has a storyline in which a recently out-gay teen character, Ben Mitchell has falsely accused one of the regular…
As I’ve said before, we were too busy simply surviving the abuse to learn the things we were supposed to learn as children, so we often start out behind in various ways.
Of course, in order to learn those things we need to do the work as an adult, to first unlearn the things we learned, and then learn the things we didn’t learn to start with. This is, perhaps, one of the real tragedies of so many survivors not even telling anyone, let alone starting this work, for decades.
That’s so many more years of doing the things we need to unlearn, and undoing that is just going to be more difficult the longer this has been true for us. So, what can we do?
Woman/Boy Relationships in Pop Culture: No Big Deal – Jordan Larson – The Atlantic tags: CA Taking the Time: Healing Happens at a Trot, Not a Gallop tags: CA Petra’s Birthday Wish for Male Abuse Awareness Week 2013 tags: CA The Reality of Depression : It Exists : Caregivers, Family tags: CA Chilling experiment shows…
Dodge County Attorney Oliver Glass says he’ll prosecute the sexual assault case like any other case. “You hear the jokes, ‘oh good for him’ and that kind of stuff, but no, the trauma for either sex can be real and therapy may be needed,” said Glass. “It’s the first case I can recall that I’ve…
