“The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
“Though no longer living in silence, I continued to carry pain and memories.” — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.” — James Garbarino Copy Share Image
“Abuse is never deserved, it is an exploitation of innocence and physical disadvantage, which is perceived as an opportunity by the abuser.” — Lorraine Nilon Copy Share Image
“The shared secret and the shared denial are the most horrible aspects of incest.” — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“the abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears” — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
“Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs Q. When is rape not rape? A. When it is your father or stepfather.” — S. Caroline Taylor Copy Share Image
“No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creation of God. May we affectionately love one another.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“defense lawyers are key in promoting the idea that many convicted of child abuse are innocent” — Bethany L. Brand Copy Share Image
“A man or a woman can't be defined by the pain inflicted in them by others or by someone else's issues, but… — Linda Alfiori Copy Share Image
“I no longer look to my abusers with any expectation– of remorse, or apology or restitution or restoration or relationship. I’m at… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
“Then there was the pain. A breaking and entering when even the senses are torn apart. The act of rape on an… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Pedophiles the world over. If you want to do that insufferable thing you do without care, concern, and/or worry; become a Catholic… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“I can't get myself to say what happened next. I cannot cope with even thinking about this let alone living with it."… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
“Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing… — Marilyn Van Derbur Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“While my sister and I were reminded we did not cause this pain, it was knowing that because we broke our silence… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, women/female children were seen either… — Judith L. Alpert Copy Share Image
“I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a child. But I… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“The themes that exercised the minds of survivor movements and their allies within the health and welfare professions generated a political project:… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“We may also discover that sexual abuse helps to explain the high prevalence rates of eating disorders among women and may lend… — Karen A. Duncan Copy Share Image
“The framing of women’s abuse narratives as quasi-legal testimony encourages the public, as interpreters, to take the stance of cross-examiners who categorize… — Sue Campbell Copy Share Image
“In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is a political fight between a group of well-financed, well-organized people whose freedom, livelihood, finances, reputations, or liberty is being threatened… — Anna C. Salter Copy Share Image
“The introduction to horrors so young impressed on me just how helpless and vulnerable I was. Parents are supposed to empower their… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
“It is hard to bring paedophile rings to justice. Thankfully it does happen. Perhaps the most horrific recent case came before the… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“We propose that use of the term “false memory” to describe errors in memory for details directly contributes to removing the social… — Jennifer J. Freyd Copy Share Image
“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments', which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons a survivor finds it so difficult to see herself as a victim is that she has been blamed… — Diane Langberg Copy Share Image
“Although the terminology implies scientific endorsement, false memory syndrome is not currently an accepted diagnostic label by the APA and is not… — Michelle Rae Hebl Copy Share Image
“It is often said that Vietnam was the first television war. By the same token, Cleveland was the first war over the… — Sue Richardson Copy Share Image
“It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Several psychologists (L. Armstrong, 1994; Enns, McNeilly, Corkery, & Gilbert, 1995; Herman, 1992; McFarlane & van der Kolk, 1996; Pope & Brown,… — Rachel E. Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Slowly, I'm beginning to realise that what happened to me wasn't my fault, that I was taken advantage of by a group… — Girl A Copy Share Image
“Something as simple as sitting next to a lonely girl on a park bench may be enough to deter predators.” — Jessica Marie Baumgartner Copy Share Image
“There is a much greater skepticism toward the memories of those who claim abuse than toward the memories of those who deny… — Sue Campbell Copy Share Image
“The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love.… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“So often parents of abused children feel helpless. When a child falls, and scrapes her knees parents can erase the hurt by… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
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