You don’t have to be a Bob Dylan fan to see that the times they are a changing.They always do. You can no more hold time in your hand and keep it from moving on than you can change the number of stars in the sky. The entire world is…
As the survivor of three domestic violence marriages I cringe with shame whenever anyone asks me how many times I’ve been married. It’s a stigma I have to live with for the rest of my life. Once upon a time, growing old with someone who I’d had children with,…
Tony Pitman, CEO of OzChild and a champion of children’s rights said, in an explosive and insightful article on July 19th in the Brizbane Times, an Australian newspaper: “The effects of child abuse are so devastating, says children’s champion, Tony Pitman, that early education and prevention programs must take their…
I can easily travel back in my mind to that dark November night when my world shattered, drove me to my knees with fear and shame, guilt and despair. At the age of thirteen I was more like a child of nine. Our folks were very strict and did what…
I was reading a blog from a male survivor’s website and he mentioned that change was always terrifying to a victim of child sexual abuse. I let that rattle around in my brain while I thought about my childhood. I had been born in International Falls, MN and between my…
