Shame, Blame, & Child Sexual Abuse: From Harsh Realities to Hope
Paperback, 180 pages
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THIS BOOK IS FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT to understand child sexual abuse in new ways. Based on interviews, the book shows what child sexual abuse means to child and adult survivors, perpetrators, and mothers of survivors. The realities are harsh, but dealing with harsh realities leads to hope and recovery.
The stories are difficult to hear. This is an old problem. Avoidance protects perpetrators, allows child sexual abuse to go on, and isolates survivors who often feel blamed and shamed. Compassionate responses to survivors and effective programs and policies depend upon accurate understandings.
Above all, this book is for survivors and their families so that they can understand the harsh realities in their own lives, find goodness and hope within themselves and in trustworthy other people, and go on to rich and fulfilling lives.