Child sexual abuse is an abuse of power, where older, stronger, and more powerful persons take advantage of children for their own sexual and emotional gratification. Perpetrators trick, force, or manipulate children into sexual content. Sexual Abuse as Touch Behaviors…
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Survivors of child sexual abuse and their families often seek professional help to deal with the shock and trauma of the abuse and to educate themselves about the myths and realities of child sexual abuse. Part of the trauma for…
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February 28, 2015 Communication
According to the American Dialect Society, truthiness is the “the quality of stating concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true.” As the Society’s 2005 word of the year, truthiness was…
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January 23, 2015 Crisis Support
I have interviewed rapists in order to understand rape. In their own words, rapists show that they alone are responsible. Here is what one man said. “Rape? What’s the big deal about rape? I raped my wife all the time….
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How can you tell if he is really in love? Girls, ‘tweens, teenagers, and even adult women often have different ideas from men about what sex means. Young girls, sometimes as young as eleven and twelve, often are sought by…
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February 13, 2014 Communication
Emotional availability is the key phrase for adults when children tell them about being sexually abused. Adults are helpful only when they respond to the children with empathy and compassion. The focus is the children. No matter how emotionally upset…
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February 13, 2014 Communication
Children require sensitive, responsive care in order to develop in healthy ways. Sensitive care givers are emotionally available to children. They are responsive to children’s cues when, for example, children want to interact with adults or are hungry, lonely, sad,…
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