Entries by tag: child abuse
The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.
~ Alice Miller
CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY
http://childrenshealthcare.org/?page_id=28
To Doctors: If you detect signs of abuse or exploitation, you as a doctor are legally bound to report it. There are more cults and troubled families out there than people realize.
In some communities or “groups”, sexual abuse especially of girls, and the use of children especially teens for hard labor is common. These children are not likely to come to you as a doctor, but you may run across them in other parts of your life. You are duty bound to protect children at every age from everyone, including potentially their family.
http://childrenshealthcare.org/?page_id=28
To Doctors: If you detect signs of abuse or exploitation, you as a doctor are legally bound to report it. There are more cults and troubled families out there than people realize.
In some communities or “groups”, sexual abuse especially of girls, and the use of children especially teens for hard labor is common. These children are not likely to come to you as a doctor, but you may run across them in other parts of your life. You are duty bound to protect children at every age from everyone, including potentially their family.
I’m reminded of a case study that describes an individual who had come to associate sexual arousal with being covered in insects. As a child, that individual had been locked into closets for unimaginable amounts of time, and during those times, bugs would frequently fill the space and crawl on him. The child, trying to seek some sort of escape from the reality of his experience, found comfort only in sexual release—even though he was too young to even know what sex was or meant. His body knew only that it felt good, and it provided the only possible escape available to him. In his mind, those associations became, quite literally, wired together.
--Roger Thompson | The Atlantic | December 19, 2014
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/12/times-up-for-timeout/383897/
*new tag: "kink"
--Roger Thompson | The Atlantic | December 19, 2014
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/12/times-up-for-timeout/383897/
*new tag: "kink"
I read this that is the fastest spreading viral video of all time. Of course there is controversy around it. As far as I know Joseph Kony really does kidnap kids and make them into murderers and sex slaves. So why not make sure he goes down this year? I like it. World community comes to bear on bad apple because of youtube. What next?
However hardly anybody is giving money to the cause. We all feel rich enough to share the link, but we, myself included, don't feel rich or involved enough to give money to a far-away cause. How can we induce world-tribe behavior? Can it be done? Or is it antithetical to true human nature? We are tribal, but it appears to me that our tribe is not extended by way of computer or television screens. I think that we need to touch and smell each other to feel that the other is part of our tribe.
I can't help but to wonder what happened to this man to make him so vicious. He is human too. How did his compassion get stripped away?
However hardly anybody is giving money to the cause. We all feel rich enough to share the link, but we, myself included, don't feel rich or involved enough to give money to a far-away cause. How can we induce world-tribe behavior? Can it be done? Or is it antithetical to true human nature? We are tribal, but it appears to me that our tribe is not extended by way of computer or television screens. I think that we need to touch and smell each other to feel that the other is part of our tribe.
I can't help but to wonder what happened to this man to make him so vicious. He is human too. How did his compassion get stripped away?
National Organization for Men Against Sexism
http://nomas.org/principles
article by Jack Straton: What is Fair for Children of Abusive Men?
http://www.nomas.org/node/91
and on the Prevalence of Rape in the US
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3173690
http://nomas.org/principles
article by Jack Straton: What is Fair for Children of Abusive Men?
http://www.nomas.org/node/91
and on the Prevalence of Rape in the US
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3173690
Of course we already knew it, but here's scientific documentation of the relationship between the hardships experienced by a child to severe obesity, physical inactivity, depressed mood, and suicide attempts as well as ischemic heart disease, cancer, chronic bronchitis or emphysema, history of hepatitis or jaundice, skeletal fractures and poor self-rated health.
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study:
http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0749-3797/PIIS0749379798000178.pdf
I found this by way of Mercola, and the discussion in the comments is interesting:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/1/17/scientific-proof-that-your-childhood-traumas-are-a-major-factor-in-your-all-your-illnesses.aspx
( study abstract behind cutCollapse )
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study:
http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0749-3797/PIIS0749379798000178.pdf
I found this by way of Mercola, and the discussion in the comments is interesting:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/1/17/scientific-proof-that-your-childhood-traumas-are-a-major-factor-in-your-all-your-illnesses.aspx
( study abstract behind cutCollapse )
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