We Are Adult Survivors of Child Abuse and Neglect

The most significant factor within a child’s life is his/her relationship (i.e., attachment) to his/her parents. Within our society, this attachment is typically a mother infant/child relationship, because most fathers have not yet taken equal responsibility for the caretaking of young children.

On February 2, 2010, the New York Times accurately quoted experts who put together the fourth installment of the National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect. But, since the New York Times reporter is not an expert on these issues, and since there is a lack of journalistic investigation

When I wrote my letter to Aetna’s CEO about my anger at Aetna doubling the co-pay to see a therapist, I expected one of two responses. The first was that I wouldn’t get a reply. The second, I would get the Company line that this was part

As usual, the insurance industry continues their discrimination of the mentally ill by unfairly charging us, especially survivors of child abuse and neglect, higher premiums. When I got my payment schedule for this year’s charges, I was very upset. So I wrote to Ronald Williams,

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.

When children are abused, they begin to question themselves and their world because it destroys two essential beliefs:

• Their sense of trust, and
• Their sense of control over their lives.

Most victims must deal with the physical and emotional shockwaves of what happened, but also with the sense of helplessness,

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.