There are many legislative issues related to the support of abuse recovery. As more and more people find answers to their health problems by dealing with unresolved past trauma, the role of therapists is becoming more and more important. Unfortunately, therapists have been attacked with frivolous lawsuits by those who would prefer to keep child abuse a secret. Perpetrator parents are working in collaboration with the system to ensure their adult children are called crazy so nobody will believe what they say. Known perpetrators are filing lawsuits.
Frivolous lawsuits take effort, time, and money to defend.
It causes therapists to have less time for their clients, to go bankrupt, to get ill, or to get out of the therapeutic field. Adults hurt as children will be unable to heal, and the cycle of child abuse will continue. Therapists will be subject only to lawsuits which are based on provable truth, by people who can show they were directly harmed. The small minority of clients who are hurt by bad therapists will still have the judicial system available to seek damages. We believe lawsuits have been used as a weapon by organizations opposed to abuse recovery to put therapists out of business.