High School students learn about child abuse

I ran across this article today, about a high school in Minnesota and how they have, for several years now, assigned students a senior research project on child abuse.

I think this is great, and I think that the more people we can get talking, thinking, acknowledging and listening to survivors, the more tools we have to combat the problem with. It’s about time people got comfortable with the idea that child abuse happens, it happens everywhere, across all social strata, among every group. And it’s time that all survivors could feel free to have a voice.

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2 Comments

  1. …I wonder why this is a unique situation. I would think that by now, it would be the standard…the “norm.” GREAT short tho…
    What can the few survivors like us do to help?

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