Matt Sandusky on the Grooming of Children by Child Sexual Abuse Perpetrators
Matt Sandusky speaks about the slow and progressive process that a child sexual abuse perpetrator uses to manipulative a child into tolerating the abuse.
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Link – “Something happened to me” — Padma Lakshmi reveals childhood sexual abuse
“Something happened to me,” Padma Lakshmi explained, “that happens to a lot of girls.” Unfortunately, she’s right. And unfortunately, not just girls. On the publication day of her new memoir, “Love, Loss And What We Ate,” the former model, “Top Chef” host and cookbook author sat down with People and Entertainment Weekly’s editorial director Jess…
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Link – New campaign asks everyone to look out for signs of child abuse
“A CAMPAIGN to encourage people to report child abuse is being rolled out in North Devon. The campaign, supported by Devon County Council, aims to tackle the problem of child abuse going unreported. A third of people who suspect child abuse do nothing to report it, according to the Department for Education. The main message…
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Link – 5 Things Everyone Needs to Know About Verbal Abuse
“The most maddening—and the most common—response I get when I write about the daughters and sons of unloving mothers is that people point out that the ones I write about were “only” (quotations marks mine, and meant ironically) verbally abused. Science knows better, but the culture does not; the mantra seems to be that if…
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Link – Tough Enough to Talk
“One in six men are sexually abused as boys, according to multiple studies. But a much smaller number ever talk about it. Most suffer in silence. I want this story to reach those who have gone through any form of sexual abuse, from the teenager struggling with his own silence to the man who has…
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Link – The Psychology of a Hug
“It sounds simple; just get a hug a day and you’ll be releasing oxytocin all over the place and you’ll enjoy steady health. The catch is that the above study was done with healthy adults–presumably adults who did not suffer from a major emotional disorder. But what happens if you are unhealthy? People who suffer…