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Articles about sexual abuse in our community.
You should have known better
It might not be those exact words but most parents dealing with their child's sexual abuse will be confronted with someone questioning their judgement, actions, etc. at some point in the process. This is exactly what happened recently during the lawsuit...
Failure to Act
Knowing but not doing anything about it is the latest banner of guilt capturing public interest. "Pope Benedict XVI failed to act over complaints during the 1990s about a priest in the US who is thought to have abused some 200 deaf boys, victims say." The public...
lets get the Pope
OK - this is an absurd title, but if you are following media frenzy regarding the sex abuse in the Pope's old parish, and the recent letter about the past abuses in Ireland, it sort of sounds that way. The Catholic Church doesn't have a corner on the market for...
I have a dream
A couple weeks ago I was watching a special on Dr. Martin Luther King and several of the people who were there for that memorable speech were talking about. Apparently it was supposed to go quite a bit differently. The person who wrote the speech...
Talking to your kids
It's great to see that people are talking about sexual abuse with their kids. It is a social problem that exists largely because of a lack of education. I would personally like to see it be a mandatory part of parent orientation at every school that a child...
Total Transformation
After a couple years of dealing with your child's sexual abuse, you may start to wonder why there aren't more training programs or products for people in our situation. I still don't know the answer to that one. At any rate, I've included a link to the...