“If you want what’s best for your kids, one surefire way to provide them with a healthy, happy home is to make… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Children do not have reasoning capability or emotive development; thus, they are unable to precisely gauge what is going on with them.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“You owe it to yourself to stand up and advocate for yourself. To not agree to what is harmful to you. To… — Dana Arcuri CTRC Copy Share Image
“You’re too sensitive’ victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive. Most adults… — Renee Fredrickson Copy Share Image
“Abused children realize that they cannot rely on their emotions since their innocent love and trust are already crushed and betrayed. They… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“The abuser wants the victim to be confounded. They do not require the victim to see undoubtedly nor see things for what… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“Manipulation is majorly at play in sexual abuse. The kid is in full control, influenced, used completely for one’s advantage, to work… — Patricia Dsouza 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
“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
I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children. — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
“Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.” — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The witch-hunt narrative is a really popular story that goes like this: Lots of people were falsely convicted of child sexual abuse… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
“When sleep came, I would dream bad dreams. Not the baby and the big man with a cigarette-lighter dream. Another dream. The… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“I would look and thirst for real love in all the wrong places and it was taken advantage of by all the… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my… — Carolyn Byers Ruch 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
“I don’t care if men accused of assault have good relationships with their wives or daughters or women they deem valuable. How… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“A plain, brown paper-wrapped package came in the mail recently. Upon opening it, I saw that it was a patchwork quilt about… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
“Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“Not a single family finds itself exempt from that one haunted casualty who suffered irreparable damage in the crucible they entered at… — Pat Conroy 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
