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Disclosing the abuse to Mum
Extract from one of the draft versions of Resolve, 2022. Some of this was cut from Chapter 3 The Problem with Disclosure. Whilst it did not make the final manuscript, I flagged it as content to share as a blog. The cited information from the Center of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse report was valuable to me for my understanding of where things went wrong for Mum and me. I vividly recall summoning up the courage to tell Mum as I walked in the same front door I used to dread walking through on all those school day afternoons for years. This was not a happy mother-and-daughter conversation we were…
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Sibling Sexual Abuse Knows No Bounds
Sibling sexual abuse knows no bounds. The bigger picture of sibling sexual abuse is enormous. It has occurred in past and present generations, regardless of family, religion, financial status, or the community in which children are raised.
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Stop Downplaying It: That Was Your Childhood Experience
Stop downplaying what was… As a child do you remember when the parents lined us up against the kitchen doorframe? They’d tell us to put our heels against the wall and stand tall and straight. Then when we stood still, they would put a pencil mark against the wall to show how tall we were. Beside the mark, the height and date were added denoting the milestone. To me, it felt like such a treat. Funny as it is to say that, given it was just a measurement of height. A moment of parental presence, perhaps? I did the same measurements with my daughters. As we moved homes I wrote…
