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Nobody would have suspected what was really going on
http://bit.ly/2mpz1TD My daughter, Bethany, and I nervously stood in front of a roomful of 30 or 40 people. We shared our histories of incest by our fathers and Bethany’s decision to report her father to the police. Though we’d been talking about our abuse privately for years, this was our first time sharing it in…

Australia board apologises to survivors of child sexual abuse
Grappling with the issue and changes and progress being made Cricket Australia’s chair Lachlan Henderson said historical child sex abuse was “an appalling issue” that society and many sports, including cricket, were grappling with. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/475995/australia-board-apologises-to-survivors-of-child-sexual-abuse

#USA #Voters #Trapped #Religion #Bias #AntiSecular
http://www.psypost.org/2017/05/study-uncovers-candidates-level-religiosity-can-impact-support-among-voters-48971 “The results have a number of implications for American politics,” Castle said. “First, they suggest that there is still a strong bias against secular candidates. In particular, we saw that Republicans had sharply negative reactions to the secular Republican candidate — in this treatment, the effect of party identification on candidate preference disappeared almost…
Happiness: an expectation that real life refuses to deliver.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-07-humans-happy.html Humans are not designed to be happy, or even content. Instead, we are designed primarily to survive and reproduce, like every other creature in the natural world. A state of contentment is discouraged by nature because it would lower our guard against possible threats to our survival. The fact that evolution has prioritised the…

“I had fought to prove I was a man, and I was never going to give that up.”
I had fought to prove I was a man, and I was never going to give that up.One weekday evening, as the weak winter sun gave up the fight against a bitter wind and savage little blasts of freezing rain, I sat on a bench after footy practice with Don, who played in my team….

Selfish jerks don’t get ahead faster: Study
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200831154408.htm The researchers conducted two studies of people who had completed personality assessments as undergraduates or MBA students at three universities. They surveyed the same people more than a decade later, asking about their power and rank in their workplaces, as well as the culture of their organizations. They also asked their co-workers to rate…