“When you get to Hell, I'll be sitting in the hot tub waiting." Cate Harlow, PI” — Kristen Houghton Copy Share Image
“I believe we all heal differently, it is a process, and many like me are here to help you as you heal,… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse. — Deepa Kumar Copy Share Image
“The truth is misrepresented, distorted, altered, tampered and changed in the mind of the child.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Immersion of some priests in sexual abuse of children gives strong impression that this practice is a typical religious feat. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
“Many of us have been disconnected with our own individualities, our true individualities.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up” — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“Children are naive, they don’t possess enough skills to be able to recognize the balance between the truth and a lie.” — Patricia Dsouza 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
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
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
“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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.” — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.” — Patricia Dsouza 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
Of course, without God, there is no value to life. That leads to immorality, that leads to sexual abuse, and there is… — Ted Cruz 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
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
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
“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