If you even think about child marriage, perhaps you think this kind of child abuse only happens in developing countries. Perhaps you think that here in the United States...
Category: Surviving CSA
5 common problems in socially neglected children
Child abuse, whether intentional or through ignorant behaviors by parents, other adults, and caregivers, are a leading cause of emotional and physical harm to children and...
Serving survivors with trauma conditions
As an infantile incest sexual abuse survivor with a cacophony of lasting trauma-conditions to navigate in the long-term, I got to a point of understanding that left me...
More reasons why boys don’t disclose abuse
The first part of this two-part article explained how sexually exploited boys can find it more difficult to disclose their abuse if they hold to rigidly defined notions of...
Sexually exploited boys: Why they don’t disclose
The sexual exploitation of children has received significant attention over recent years with much being written about the reasons sexually exploited children don’t...
The Weapon of Shame
When you associate shame and guilt with sex, you are facilitating sexual abuse.
I
came of age when sexual activity...