Category: Coercion
🌹 For Child Abuse: Disclosure Is the Beginning, Not the End
When a child finds the courage to say, “This happened to me,” that mom [...]
Protecting Girls from Grooming: Lessons from Courtney Stodden’s Lifetime Movie
Here in the West we talk about "child marriage" as if it is something [...]
The Leesburg Stockade Girls- 15 Black Teens Secretly Imprisoned for Protesting Segregation in 1963
In 1963, fifteen Black girls—some as young as twelve—were arrested in [...]
Words Matter: Why We Say Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
For too long, the phrase “child porn” has been used in media, courts [...]
You Can Be Kind and Still…
Sometimes young people think kindness means being walked over or ignor [...]
The Danger of Believing “Our Side” Can’t Harm Children
It’s okay to belong to a group—but when you convince yourself that y [...]
The Public’s Silence: How Child Predators Thrive in Plain Sight
Capable adults can seem pretty useless when it comes to stopping peopl [...]
The Courage It Takes to Speak Truth
We must understand just how immense the courage is for a survivor to s [...]
Believe Them the First Time
Maya Angelou, a Survivor of child sexual abuse, left us with words [...]
If You Can’t Face Ugly History, Children Notice
Until we become the kind of grown ups who can handle hearing about ugl [...]