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Abuse Symptoms
Learn the symptoms of child abuse and the suffering it causes to the victims.
Flashbacks
Abuse victims may suffer extreme anxiety over flashbacks. Read more about this pheonomenon and what to do about it.
Healthy Boundaries
Learn how to set healthy boundaries to prevent abuse.
Ongoing Abuse
What to do if someone is abusing you.
Parenting Workshop
The Steamboats Parenting Workshop offers advice, books, and links for parents who want to raise happy spiritual kids.
Ten Reasons Not to Hit Your Kids
This article is reprinted with the permission of Jan Hunt, M.Sc., Director of The Natural Child Project*
Relevant Books:
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth by Alice Miller
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child by Alice Miller
Betrayal of Innocence: Incest and Its Devastation by Susan Forward, Craig Buck
Cult Survivor's Handbook, by Nori J. Muster (now available as a Kindle edition).
More books:
Child Abuse Recovery
Parenting Books
Other Self-Help
The History of Positive Thinking
Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna Movement
Learn more about this case.
Story Matters
Stories for Abuse Victims drawn from the Vedic scriptures of India.
Research and Religion Clash
Scholar E. Burke Rochford Uncovers Uncomfortable Truths, June 2002.
Children of ISKCON vs. ISKCON
Learn more about this lawsuit.
Who's Watching the Children?
Excerpt from Betrayal of the Spirit describing child abuse in the Hare Krishna movement.
Life as a Woman on Watseka Avenue
Nori's essay published in the book, "The Hare Krishna Movement: The Post-charismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant," by Edwin Bryant, Ph.D., and Maria Ekstrand, Ph.D., eds., Columbia University Press, 2004.
Links
Find websites dedicated to the issue of child abuse, along with links to the Children of Krishna.
Bitter Chocolate: Child Sexual Abuse in India, by Pinki Virani.
Book description: A path-breaking book that challenges our notion of family honor and morality. Academic studies about child abuse in India.
Sometime, somewhere, the conspiracy of silence around Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Indian homes had to be shattered. This path breaking book - the first of its kind in the country and subcontinent - attempts to give that sexually abused child a powerful voice. It provides damning disclosures about men, and some women, in middle and upper-class families who sexually abuse their children, then silence them into submission.
Based on studies, reports and investigation, this book reveals that a minimum of twenty per cent of girls and boys under the age of sixteen are regularly being sexually abused; half of them in their own homes, by adults who have the child's trust.
245 pages ~ ISBN: 0-14-029897-5 ~ language: English ~ Year: 2000
Another good book for abuse survivors Sexual Anorexia: Overcoming Sexual Self-Hatred by Patrick Carnes, Joseph Moriarity
Nori Muster has a Masters of Science degree from Western Oregon University (1991) and her background is working with juvenile delinquents and ex-cult members*.
Click here to see "Cult Recovery Handbook," by Nori Muster, now available as a Kindle edition.
"Witnessing torture stains the soul."
- Frank Smith, L.A. Times
23 May 04, in ref. to Abu Ghraib
