The Trauma Myth: The Truth about the Sexual Abuse of Children—and Its Aftermath
On April - 19 - 2010
More controversy over Susan Clancy’s book which details her warped perception of child sexual abuse & the effects it has on children.
Beginning in the mid-1990s, Susan Clancy, now a psychology associate at Harvard, interviewed over 200 adults about memory and childhood sexual abuse experiences. Two-thirds of her interviewees were women. She solicited her subjects through a newspaper ad in the Boston Globe and other Boston-area newspapers. Unfortunately she does not completely describe her methodology, and her sample appears to have been biased.
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---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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Child abuse is traumatic Says:
The myth is that there is no trauma. Clancy claims the child is “confused” and not traumatized. Yet, almost all of the research in the field contradicts this. Here are some links on child abuse trauma.
http://books.google.com/books?id=2iY-9WEwk1kC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false
http://www.cbwhit.com/ACEstudy.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/ACE/findings.htm
Posted on April 19th, 2010 at 11:09 pm