Abuse

  • Link suggestions?

    I’ve been watching some of the blogs that I link to in the blogroll on the front page of this site slowly go away, just stop updating, or morph into something else. So I’m officially going to start looking for more “Inspirational Blogs” in my surfing. As always, I’m looking for examples of regular people…

  • 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…

  • Survey

    YoMonkey posted a survey in the forums, hoping that some folks will take the time to help her with a study she is conducting to help high school kids understand the effects of child abuse. You can send her an email from that post with your answers, or, I suppose, you could just answer them…

  • Prisoners

    Is any one else troubled by the idea that what happened in the Iraqi prisons is, rightfully, condemned far and wide as a human right’s abuse, while prison rape in our country is widespread and completely accepted, even joked about?

  • Touching

    I’ve been talking with someone about the topic of being touched in public, or by various people. I’m somewhat fascinated by what other people’s feelings are on the subject. I’m very uncomfortable being touched by all but a few people in the world, and I’ve slways assumed that’s because of the abuse. That short list…