Monday, February 23, 2004
Domestic violence and animals
I may be repeating myself here, but it's worth it if someone new is reached with this message. Did you know that animal abuse is far more likely to happen along with domestic violence than in homes in which there is no domestic violence? I bring up the topic because my former partner was in the... Sign in to see full entry.
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Monday, February 16, 2004
4,450 clergy accused of abusing minors
I just pulled up a news story on AOL about this issue, and the indications in this article are that this is actually much higher than some people thought the figure would be. The figure I quoted in the title of this post is an estimate of the number of priests accused of abuse since the year 1950.... Sign in to see full entry.
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Sunday, February 8, 2004
Coming to terms with abuse, and moving on
Caroline Myss, in her book Anatomy of the Spirit, talks about meeting a woman who was an incest survivor. The problem this woman - whose first name was Mary - had was only distantly related to incest; ask her a simple yes-or-no question (which someone did while she was in Myss' presence) and you got... Sign in to see full entry.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2004
Recommended reading
This piece of recommended reading is not a book - it's a blog right here on BN. Use the following link to go to Pecanflower's Lesbian Lessons and read about abuse in the lesbian community: http://www.bloggingnetwork.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/LesibanLessons/87611 Neither one of the incidents she describes... Sign in to see full entry.
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Some more thoughts about child abuse
Recently, I talked about two moms whose behavior I had the opportunity to observe while I was at the doctor's office. From the tone of the comments on that post, I gather that many of you sided with these parents and the way they handled the situations I described. I felt it necessary to post this... Sign in to see full entry.
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This post is a continuation, in a way, of my last one. I mentioned last time that my former partner was a wimp (at least in my opinion), because he seemed to me to be afraid to do anything about his problems in any realm other than that of the occult, or that of the emotional abuser. Although there... Sign in to see full entry.
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Friday, January 30, 2004
Rules are made to be broken...
That isn't just the title of one of TooeleWriterGal's blogs. It's also part of the sig line my former partner used to use. The full text goes something like this: "Rules are meant to be broken, along with the heads of those who make them." There's a reason for putting it in quotes, rather than... Sign in to see full entry.
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Making choices
Regular readers of this blog will notice that I haven't been posting in here regularly this past month. There are some good reasons for that. First of all, I've been going to the doctor seemingly every five minutes - and I exaggerate only slightly. It's an occupational hazard of having kidney... Sign in to see full entry.
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Monday, January 26, 2004
What happens when a child-abuse report damages reputations and is wrong?
A comment left on my last post in this blog got me to thinking about this very problem: What happens when someone gets falsely hotlined (that is, when someone "drops a dime" about their treatment of their children, and the children aren't mistreated)? Well, that's the problem with an anonymous... Sign in to see full entry.
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Sunday, January 25, 2004
Reporting abuse
I have had a lively discussion, in the comments section of some of the posts on this blog, about just what constitutes abuse. One way to help settle the issue in your own mind is to talk it over with someone else. That "someone else" might actually be a state official, or someone else affiliated... Sign in to see full entry.
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The name of the post is derived from a Francis Schaeffer book, and intended to rebut something I'd seen on the Internet. The blog itself is about what I've learned about relationships from the ones I've had, and the ones I've observed. It will not be pleasant to read, and might wander off-topic occasionally, but is intended to be a long-term blog reading like a public journal.  Links
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