“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Fifty three per cent children in India face sexual abuse - both boys and girls - but we still feel uncomfortable talking… — Rahul Bose Copy Share Image
But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor"… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“The central attitudes driving the Drill Sergeant are: I need to control your every move or you will do it wrong. I… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
I didn't vote for Trump, but I do believe his coming to power has done its own bit of good. People are… — Daryl Davis 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
“Adults need to teach the children they love about sexual abuse so they know what to do if they encounter it. We… — Carolyn Byers Ruch 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
“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
“Many professionals have to sign gagging clauses or face the sack if they speak out. The social worker and therapist was familiar… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Cumulative child sexual abuse pervades the curtains of great economies in the world today. From the fields to machines, to the locked… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
“By the nineteenth century, society had given up burning witches. Yet the sexual exploitation of children continued. In late-nineteenth-century Britain, for example,… — Patrick J. Carnes 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
“The return of the voices would end in a migraine that made my whole body throb. I could do nothing except lie… — Alice Jamieson 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
“Soul Abuse is the destruction of a victim's awareness of the strength within their soul. It stems from the abuser's intention to… — Lorraine Nilon Copy Share Image
“The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“The purpose of the book is to break the silence and stigma surrounding sexual abuse and to educate the public on how… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Homosexuals are rarely monogamous and have as many as 300 to 1,000 sexual partners over the course of a lifetime. … [T]he… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
“Parents that provide a nonviolent, fostering, strong and steady background for their children assist in impede violence and abuse in their households.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Abuse ambushed my life, I could not love myself truly and could never have a healthy relationship, they were either abused or… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
“Most children who survive into adulthood always have a lingering question that commonly arises as to why is there very little support… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
“Why do women love to read about sexually aggressive billionaire bad boy alpha males but condemn the same behavior in real life?” — Oliver Markus Malloy 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
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
“Not only do I believe children can be reliable in sexual abuse cases, I believe the vast majority of them are reliable… — Stephen J. Ceci Copy Share Image
“The most treasured gift you can present yourself today is a hand of assistance to liberate you from the prison of anxiety,… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image