“It's easy not to abuse your power when you don't actually have any power.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.” — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
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
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way. — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
“I have to find a place to hide An island in the sea Surrounded by a racing tide Where I can live… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
[Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often. — Rachael Taylor 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
I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children. — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
“There is an intensified risk for a child living in a household experiencing domestic violence, because their basic childhood requirement is not… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Being survivors signifies that we have recognized that we have been through a lot that should never have taken place and we… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“A covert kind of sexual abuse occurs when Dad or Mom talk about sex in front of the children when the age… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret.… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“Neglect transpires when the accountable adult fails to provide sufficiently for the needs of a child. It may be deliberate and conscious… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Americans love a conspiracy theory. It also tapped into people's disillusionment with the Catholic Church following the sexual abuse scandals. — SangFroid Shaalu Copy Share Image
“Studies conducted in a city in Zimbabwe found that half of reported rape cases involve girls less than 15 years of age… — Njovana Watts Copy Share Image
I've never ever attacked someone who's been the victim who's been the victim of sexual abuse. Not only that, I've put people… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“Without (hetero)sexual abuse, (hetero)sexual harassment and the (hetero)sexualization of every aspect of female bodies and behaviors, there would not be patriarchy, and… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
“Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive.… — Lynette Gould 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
“God healed everything in my life from a non-curable disease, bad programming from child sexual abuse, father and mother wounds, bitterness, hatred,… — Shelley Lubben 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
“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
I'm just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case (the 1994 sexual abuse conviction),… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“Davies and Frawley believe that while the child may be a passive victim of the original sexual abuse, the child’s subsequent active… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Two other highly vocal FMSF Advisory Board members are Dr Elizabeth Loftus and Professor Richard Ofshe. Loftus is a respected academic psychologist… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“I am disgusted that I was often taken into their bed and told to do things to both of them. The things… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
“For all this talk about us being a nation at war with child abuse, and for all the media hype about witch-hunts… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
“JONES IS BOTH symptom and cause of how knee-jerk, florid conspiracism has become rampant and normalized in America, a fixture of the… — Kurt Andersen 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
“It is necessary to make this point in answer to the 'iatrogenic' theory that the unveiling of repressed memories in MPD sufferers,… — 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
“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse].… — Joan Coleman Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4” — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life” — Lynette Gould Copy Share Image
Trauma and sexual abuse are two of our most pressing human and societal problems. They must be studied by unbiased scientific investigation… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t some mysterious adverse personality trait that comprises of who I am, it unquestionably had a source - A cradle of… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we… — Carolyn Byers Ruch 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
I'm certainly not suggesting legalization of polyamory. But it's also unfairly judgmental of you to compare such relationships to the criminal acts… — Emily Yoffe 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
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