"There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it's continued effects on us won't "just go away". That's our breakthrough moment. It's the sun coming ..."
- Jeanne McElvaney
"If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized over and over again for years, but that day never came, wh..."
- Erin Merryn
"Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, women/female children were seen either as culpable seducers who were not really ..."
- Judith L. Alpert
"From Colin A. Ross, 1995: The writer is the brother of the man who co-founded the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. He is writing to WGBH about a program called 'Divided Memories', which you may have ..."
- William Freyd
"I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me, he believed me,..."
- Carolyn Byers Ruch
"When we talk with our children about sexual abuse, we are not only taking a proactive step toward protecting them, we are building our relationship with them--grounded in honesty and trust. It's a win..."
"Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid."
"And Ana remembered her father's words, "Say no! Run! Tell me!"
"Don't put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child."
"Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero."