As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, there’s no surefire way to prevent sexual assault.” — Jennifer Marsh Copy Share Image
“It's easy not to abuse your power when you don't actually have any power.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“They illustrate that since no one really loves or cares for them, why should they love or care for themselves?” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review” — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“Did his crime give others some kind of implicit permission to behave the same way, reverberating on and on into the future?” — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, Ruth decided that not punishing the wicked was unfair to the good.” — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
“Don't put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child.” — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
Some people think it's demeaning to victims if you ever say anything out-loud about sexual abuse of children. I don't know if… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.” — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
“These were children. Gerry was their priest. Who could disagree that these children were not justified in trusting their priest? Nobody!” — Mark M. Bello Copy Share Image
I only wish that I had had the courage and the knowledge to have gotten that out of my system, out of… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
“The thought had occurred to me as I was flying to Salt Lake City earlier that day that Ted Bundy might offer… — Elizabeth F. Loftus Copy Share Image
“The local police was her brother Martin, the sheriff. Her father was the Assistant Chief of Police. The last thing she was… — Elizabeth Garden 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
“Because there is beauty and there is art that celebrates it like a secret language, I was reassured and connected to something… — Elizabeth Garden 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
“In addition to reaching out for help, you will also need to reach within yourself. Your biggest ally will be your emotions.… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject… — Stephen Lewis 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
“Chief Johnson has full faith on us. Which means if I can complete this task and hunt down the murderer, not only… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
“I recall as a child when I got so hostile that I didn’t know whom to trust anymore, and then I would… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Domestic violence is just as much a quality-of-life and liberty for community, social, and legal attention to support mental, emotional, health, wellness… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
“The healing process is best described as a spiral. Survivors go through the stages once, sometimes many times; sometimes in one order,… — Laura Hough Copy Share Image
“Somatize: how the body defends itself against too much stress, manifesting psychological distress as physical symptoms in the stomach or nerves or… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“The BFMSS [British False Memory Syndrome Society] The founder of the 'false memory' movement in Britain is an accused father. Two of… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
“But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage… — Sue Richardson Copy Share Image
“[Refers to 121 children taken into care in Cleveland due to suspected abuse (1987) and later returned to their parents] Sue Richardson,… — Heather Bacon Copy Share Image
“Well before she became famous — or infamous, depending on where you cast your vote — Loftus's findings on memory distortion were… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“Women involved in out-patient treatment for substance abuse were interviewed to examine their recollections of childhood sexual abuse. Overall, 54% of the… — Elizabeth F. Loftus Copy Share Image
“when these little ones don’t receive the love, they need in their homes, they seek attention outside.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“After all, life is a voyage, and you cannot start out this voyage all over once more. You need to be in… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“He recognized the same frenzy of wild abandon that each of those adults shared while beating their children, as if the important… — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
“When we talk with our children about sexual abuse, we are not only taking a proactive step toward protecting them, we are… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
“Even if I had friends or people around me it did not matter anymore, I always felt isolated and unique from all… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“As these abuse children grow, they oppose the lies (that they still trust and believe to be true) to the verity that… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“If we truly believe in equity, in justice, in accountability — then gender can’t be a shield. A predator is a predator,… — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
“The mind fabricates and believes in whatever it wants to conclude is true because of what occurs on the spur of the… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image