It’s not necessarily about childhood abuse, but i found the story of Mackey Sasser, a catcher with the New York Mets who’s career ended after he simply couldn’t throw the ball any longer highly interesting. It wasn’t until much later in life that he saw a specialist in the physical effects of childhood trauma that…
“Portraits and Biographies of Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse” tags: CA ChildAbuse 10 Compassionate Ways to Support Loved Ones Suffering from Depression tags: CA Depression Powerful Photos of Sex Abuse Survivors tags: CA ChildAbuse 10 Things You Should Never Say To Someone With Depression tags: CA Depression FIFA’s new mental health research project is…
http://www.theguardian.com/society/video/2014/sep/12/samantha-morton-sexually-abused-child-care-homes-video-interview Following revelations of child sex abuse in Rotherham, actor and director Samantha Morton felt the need to go public about her own shocking experience growing up in care homes in Nottingham. Here she talks for the first time about being sexually abused by residential care workers, and what happened when she went to the…
What to Do When You Suspect Child Abuse tags: CA ChildAbuse U.N. Report: Child Abuse Is Rampant Globally tags: CA ChildAbuse The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim tags: CA ChildAbuse Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
During the past week when a report broke in Rotheram, Yorkshire, Channel 5 showed a 2-part drama regarding child abuse, called Suspects. Since the channel itself made the programme, you can watch it online for a year if you head to their main catchup site using a computer. The front page is here at the…
A report was published last week in Rotheram, Yorkshire regarding the abuse of 1400 children by organised gangs http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089 and the highlighting of the race of the offenders and victims was given a proper focus alongside the problems with the child protection systems in that town. During the first few days the media focus was…
