We Are Adult Survivors of Child Abuse and Neglect

The relationship between girls being abused and their involvement in crime later in life was studied by the National Institute of Justice.[1] It found that when compared with girls who have not been abused and neglected during childhood, abused and neglected girls are:

When a child is sexually abused, they normally don’t tell anyone.  When they become adults, they either never tell anyone or wait for years before disclosing their abuse. The primary reason for that is the negative responses from others which is unconscionable. This is what I call the

The Catholic Church, along with every other religious organization, has sheltered child molesters within their “families.” It is just that there has been a lot more coverage of the Catholic Church by the media. What is very obvious to me and other survivors is the hypocrisy and feigned repugnance

Every time I read a research article that presents its findings on abuse and domestic violence, they constantly put out the same mantra that poverty is a major indicator. As I’ve said on other posts, abuse has nothing to do with a household’s income. People with money can afford to

The Brookings Institute conducted a six year study and published its findings in 2007 in a report titled, “Child Protection and Parent Training Programs.” They wanted to:

• Describe the nation’s child protection system—to understand what was really going on in America, and
• Know more about child outcomes.

Senator Paul Wellstone, who died in a plane crash in 2002, was a champion for the downtrodden and those suffering from mental illness. He worked hard to represent the “least of us” and for that I am very grateful. I want to provide you with information about a bill he

As promised, this is my response to my last blog Harvard – “Child Sexual Abuse Not Traumatic”. I am disgusted and full of rage.

Neither Clancy nor the reporter are trained in trauma, but this is Clancy’s way of getting notoriety at the expense of child abuse survivors.

A Harvard researcher wrote a book recently titled:  The Trauma Myth:  The Truth  About the Sexual Abuse of Children—and its Aftermath. The New York Times wrote about it on January 25, 2010 as follows:[1]

“For a graduate research project at Harvard in the mid-1990s, the psychologist Susan A. Clancy arranged

Right after President Obama’s inauguration, I began writing to him to see if he would meet with me as an adult survivor of child abuse. I explained in each of my letters that I am one of millions who are ignored and discriminated against all over America. I also sent statistics showing that child abuse

April is supposed to be Child Abuse Awareness Month. How many mentions of it have you heard by the media this month? Not even the President has said anything. And yet, he announced on Monday a $6 billion investment into cancer research. Don’t get me wrong. I applaud his efforts to find a cure for cancer, but I want to put the issue in perspective.^[1]