“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
“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
“the abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears” — Carolyn Ainscough 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
“The shared secret and the shared denial are the most horrible aspects of incest.” — John Bradshaw 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“In order to establish the narrative that innocent men have been the victims of an epidemic of false allegations, “moral panic” advocates… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“I am inundated with feeling. I feel like a pinball machine on tilt. All the buzzers are ringing, lights are flashing, and… — Holly A. Smith Copy Share Image
“The childhood sexual abuse taught me that my value came from sex. In adulthood, I was driven to have sex since I… — Christina Enevoldsen 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
“The FMSF achieved prominence partly as a response to increased possibilities for women to institute criminal or civil proceedings that relate to… — Sue Campbell 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
“Talk of "witch-hunts" conceals an inconvenient fact: men charged with rape stand a better chance of walking free than other defendants. The… — Joan Smith 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
“Along with the trust issues, one of the hardest parts to deal with is the feeling of not being believed or supported,… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“There were other strange signals and signs. Another day, suddenly felt an almost overwhelming urge to travel to Balitmore. I wanted to… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed?… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“Whatever proponents of false memory syndrome may claim and however persuasively they tell their stories and anecdotes, dissociative amnesia typically involves fragmented… — Jenny Ann Ryberg Copy Share Image
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“Like Jocelyn, Survivors often think: * That’s just the way I am * I’m not lovable, that’s why I keep having disastrous… — Carolyn Ainscough 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
“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
“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
“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
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