Review: There is no such thing as a sexually consenting Child
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 31, 2013
My title is the last sentence of Sylvia's book and it says it all. Firstly Sylvia details a true case where 2 boys were abused through out their lives and the adults around them did nothing. Her book demonstrates how abuse can escalate from trying to control a situation, into sadism and violence, how generations of abusers become abusers themselves and why and how we can so easily miss a plea for help. That a judge of the court could come to the conclusion he did, makes me wonder about justice and how corrupt it might be. Thank God there was some justice in the appeal. Throughout this book, Sylvia attempts to unravel the many misconceptions and psychobabble of decades of thinkers like Freud, Kinsey and others who created the climate of disbelief surrounding child abuse. She opens the pandora's box on how many women (and men)have led damaged lives because of abuse in Child hood. How many have been treated for something that was a symptom of abuse but never discovered. That it is possible to be in denial but have suffered abuse. She uses this book to discuss more of her first book and how truth came to light for herself. It did not read like a text book, so the reading was not too technical and wordy, but the subject is not an easy one. However we all need to be informed.