A Portrait of Norma Then came summer vacation before Jr High Long days of summer to interact with friends And let’s not forget uncles, aunts and cousins Parks, barbqs, road trips, and just because with kin Sleepovers with girlfriends while imitating singing groups Applying make-up, and talking about boys About what we would do once […]
Most websites agree that all sexual abuse reports are under-enumerated mainly because they are under-reported. When I read statistics on the matter, I sometimes at least double many of the given projections. The World I billion children across the world are exposed to violence in childhood each year. That’s over half of the world’s children
Sexual abuse is not necessarily about sex, although things of a sexual nature take place. It’s about power. It contains the jonesing, the addiction, the need for domination in taking something away from someone and watching the lack of ability of that person to reveal the theft. When someone is about to marry, they are
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I Don’t know. Maybe it’s been 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, or 40 years since that intrusion of sexual abuse into your life. And somehow, say with a time warp, or a divine manipulation and interference with time, you can go there and whisper into the ear of that younger you. Someone you’d trust. What
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For the most part abuse is deliberate. I can’t defend my actions. They too were deliberate. Still, I would like to think that I gave my children a lot of the things my mother gave me, as I remember them. Still I know my offerings were convoluted. For instance, as a child I was never
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It was one of those situations that happens rather spontaneously. ELSJ2 worked in the plants there and maybe we could make it there a little better. It was decided that we would move to Michigan. That was February of 1978. It was the last Tuesday in the month. Happy Days came on that night. At
Daddy, Uncle Good Deeds by Good People I think people may read this and say boy you had it bad, that once your mom died you didn’t have a chance in hell. That isn’t exactly true. I did get a chance but I was too immature to know it. With that thought it dawned on
Ramifications Part 1 The first half of my life before adulthood, when I was a typical kid, I suffered no abuse. I was respected and given the liberties of a child. The ramifications of this existence netted an outgoing chatterbox of a kid who was delighted to overcome her obstacles. This included being successful in
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In the Mind’s Eye Dream On I Don’t Mind Happiness doesn’t start with a relationship, a degree, a job or money. It starts with your thoughts and what you tell yourself every day. The Secret @ The Secret Happy The future is an exciting place. Don’t let the past hold you from it. The past
A child needs stability and security in order to construct their maps on how the world works One day I walked out of my stable environment into a world that I knew nothing about. From my mother’s house into a hell. At that time, I didn’t know what hell was or where I was. I
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