156 Quotes About Child-sexual-abuse
- Author Ellen Bass
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There is comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.
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- Author Judith Lewis Herman
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It is regarded as axiomatic that parents have more power then children. This is an inescapable biological fact; young children are completely dependent on their parents or other caring adults for survival.
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- Author Billy Childish
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My childhood ended around the time of my ninth birthday, shamed into sex, obedience and fear.
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- Author Aishah Shahidah Simmons
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When people ask me about what made the biggest difference in my healing, I tell them that I was believed and tremendously loved. I never felt blamed or shamed into silence.
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- Author Christina Enevoldsen
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I no longer look to my abusers with any expectation– of remorse, or apology or restitution or restoration or relationship. I’m at peace, accepting that they won’t and can’t help me out of the mess they created. But, I’m the best qualified for that job anyway and I’m happy with the job I’m doing.
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- Author A.K. Kuykendall
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Each 'RED BUTTON' is representative of a thousand children raped. Don't like that word? Well, children, I assume, don't like being raped either. And by Catholic priests sworn to protect those God ordains strength (?)
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- Author Carolyn Ainscough
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the abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears
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- Author Sarah E. Olson
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The reality is, no matter what you were told, whatever happened to you as a child was not legally or morally your fault. Abused children are instilled with guilt regarding their "participation." It's an especially complex issue if the abuser is a family member. The child is told and believes that by his word his family will disintegrate, or harm may descend upon other loved ones. He fears he will lose more by telling than not.
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- Author Beverly Engel
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Some Survivors get angry at having to work at recovering from sexual abuse. They feel that it is unfair. They suffered all their life because of what someone else did to them: why do they have to suffer any more pain? This anger of “having” to do something is similar to the anger they felt at “having” to put up with the abuse.
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