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The truth of child abuse project
“the trauma myth” is a book written by a “professional” on chid sexual abuse. The book basically implies that sexual abuse is not traumatic to a child as they “do not understand what sex is, so cannot understand that they are being victimised”…
There is more information on here writtings (and my opinion of it) here and here
I want to know what other peoples opinions are. Personally I feel that this “theory” is actually danagerous and sort of adds weight to the argument used by several peadophile rings of “the child isn’t being harmed”…
I also think that we need to counter this… I like the idea of a mass writting campaign, but I want your opinions and input. What do YOU think would be the best way forward?
Mom Who Hurts said
Children are harmed by abuse. I am living it first hand as I watch my child trying to recover. He was gone for two years of his life hidden by the walls of abuse. Now at ten years old he is back but something was stolen. I believe all wounds like broken bones can end up stronger than they were before but there will always be a mark. It is a harmful lie that sexual abuse is not traumatic.
shadowlight and co said
I am so sorry about your child. Sounds like you are a great parent though and I am sure that helps, though I can only imagine how hard it is to watch someone you care about try to recover from abuse…
I myself went through abuse, still have the scars (both physical and mental) to show for it… I hate it when people try to belittle the experiancem, but I guess for those who have not been through it or witnessed the effects it can be hard to understand
onedadslife said
My opinion about “experts” and “professionals” is that unless they have actually been abused as a child then they know jack shit.
My own experience was as a child I saw all kinds of pyschologists and therapists and what they concluded was that “I” had a problem. Disregard the fact my mother beat the hell out of me. I reacted to it so therefore I had the issue.
In my book if you havent been abused you know nothing about it but cold clinical data and to effect any change in child abuse laws or just better express to the general public what it was like, you need a survivor not a mouthpiece.
Just my 2 cents.
Splinteredones said
Umm, I think we need to scream in as many ways that we can.
Christine said
I cannot believe someone would publish something like that! It makes me sick. Abuse in any form can and does hurt anyone of any age. One doesn’t need to understand the abuse to be scarred by it. I would love to meet this author and give him/her a piece of my mind!