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Articles about sexual abuse in our community.
Vatican Job Interview
We've all had stressful job interviews. For some it's the questions, for others it is the waiting. And every few years it's the expectations of a billion people for you to lead them. It's currently just over 30 days from when the Vatican says we...
Sexual Abuse by the Numbers
It always amazes me that problems much less common than sexual abuse like autism and cancer tend to get much more attention. I don't know if they are any less scary, but anything sex related is difficult to talk about. And for many people, it's just...
Becoming a Superhero
In the last few weeks most of the world has been watching from a distance as events unfolded in Newtown, CT. For some of us the view has been a little closer, and it got me thinking. For the most part the public doesn't know the families at this point....
Winter Blues
Most people have heard the term winter blues. It's also known as seasonal affective disorder, or it's appropriate acronym SAD. If you are new to the concept, it is especially prevalent in northern regions where there isn't as much...
The Second Worst Club
Groucho Marx is famous for saying that he would never want to be the member of a club that would want him as a member. As far as parenting goes, I believe being the parent of a sexually abused child is the second worst club to be a member of. It's painful,...
A glimpse of Sex Slavery
Over the next few months I'm going to be doing a series of posts on sex slavery. In southeast Asia it is basically an industry. Thailand actually has a tourist market for sex - mostly girls. Sri Lanka on the other hand is less well known to the...