Child-protection Quote by Lisa Shultz

“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social…

— Michael Salter

“As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investigations throughout the 1980s, some children began to disclose premeditated, sadistic…

— Michael Salter

“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the testimony of…

— Michael Salter

“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed? After all,…

— Beatrix Campbell

“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't until 1984…

— Carolyn Spring

“Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded from the…

— Michael Salter

“Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under pressure from…

— Michael Salter

“Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate and deny…

— Chrystine Oksana

“But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage of time…

— Sue Richardson

“(Talking about the movement to deny the prevalence and effects of adult sexual exploitation of children) So what does this movement consist of? Who…

— Beatrix Campbell

“I would like to turn in my skin and change it for a new epidermis. It feels as if I will never be able…

— Holly A. Smith

“I find it disturbing that one anthropologist's readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians. [Referring to…

— Valerie Sinason