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No need to forget that anyone can be a victim
On March 1, 2013 the @washingtonpost published an article about survivors of clergy abuse. Here's the image the newspaper lead with. It represented all survivors.There's no need to forget that anyone can be a victim and anyone a perpetrator. pic.twitter.com/Ja8NqrOQIG — MaleSurvivor (@MaleSurvivorORG) October 4, 2018

Myth : Psychotherapy can solve problems in one or two sessions.
While convenient for the novel or television show to have a character “fixed” in a session or two, it doesn’t work that way in real life. The average session is around 50 to 60 minutes and the first session is basically an intake and getting acquainted session. To get to the heart of a problem,…
Seven year sentence well beyond excessive punishment
The Supreme Court has rejected a seven-year prison sentence for a mentally ill man convicted in 2018 of trying to kiss a stranger on a Wellington street without her permission – describing the man’s maximum sentence as one that “shocks the conscience”. Four of the justices agreed the sentence was severe enough it breached the…
Paying the price of being an enabler
http://bit.ly/2rl8gSz The explanations provoked derision and ridicule in newspapers and social media. Prince Andrew’s withdrawal from public life over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal means that all 200 of his charities will need to seek new patrons. The Queen ordered the Duke of York to step down in an attempt to contain the fall-out from his…

Kinds of irreligion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion Secular humanism embraces human reason, ethics, social justice, and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, pseudoscience, and superstition as the bases of morality and decision making. Secular humanism posits that human beings are capable of being ethical and moral without religion or a god. Freethought holds that positions regarding truth should be…

#Age #no #barrier #abuse
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/97366588/unicef-nz-raewyn-talks-about-the-sexual-abuse-she-suffered-as-a-child The statistics are harrowing. In the first six months of this year, 1211 sexual assaults on children were recorded in New Zealand. In reality, there are far more. There are many children like me, who are too scared to tell. Age is no barrier to abuse. For those children who experience it, it takes…