Beyond silence
Subtitle: voices of childhood sexual abuse
By: by SAGE
Publisher: Acorn Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charlottetown, P.E.I
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781894838412
Subjects: Adult child sexual abuse victims; Biography; Child sexual abuse; Prevention; Enfants victimes d'abus sexuels devenus adultes; Biographies; Abus sexuels à l'égard des enfants; Prévention
Notes: Co-published by SAGE.
Table of contents: title: My innocence was not for the taking / Caireen Goddessa; title: A child abuser's weapons : SILENCE. My weapon of choice : SPEAKING OUT. Who are YOU supporting? / Charlotte Belle; title: Some days the mask did not fit ... / Judy Donovan Whitty; title: Child sexual abuse is a community problem, not a child's / S. Wray; title: Once, too young to stop it. Silence broken with full voice. I can stop it now / Brigid; title: If I knew then what I know now, it would have been stopped / K.A.R.; title: Please hear what I cannot say, all behaviour has a purpose, the bars of silence imprison my soul / Gentle Hugs; title: YOU had the power to not abuse me, which, unfortunately, YOU chose not to use / Clare Green; title: I felt as though I had nightmares every night, but I realize it was just visions of my reality / Kathleen Perry; title: How do you learn to walk when you've spent a lifetime running? / Marlene; title: Most children tell someone. Will you listen? / Maggie; title: Sexual abuse, it violates us, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually / Pam; title: Someday I will be bigger, I will be stronger, and I will win / L.T.; title: I am much more than a child sexually abused; in fact, the best of who I am has been transformed from my experience / Ruby Sugarloaf; title: Preventing child sexual abuse / Colleen MacQuarrie, Kele Redmond, and Judy Donovan Whitty, in collaboration with the Editorial Collective.