 | Following is a list of everything I've posted on preventing child abuse and recovery from abuse. You will also find good books by Alice Miller and others. My master's thesis was on whether to use art therapy with juvenile sex offenders. Since earning my degree I have worked continually with the subject of abuse and the victims of abuse. Please learn something today to help stop abuse of children. |
Abuse Symptoms
Learn the symptoms of child abuse and the suffering it causes to the victims. (Editor's Note: Here is a good article by John W. Wilson about the basics of male sexual child abuse. Many of the points could apply to both males and famales. - click here.)
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*
Story Matters
Stories for Abuse Victims drawn from the Vedic scriptures of India.
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 (posted free at this site).
More books:
Child Abuse Recovery
Parenting Books
Bibliography of A Cult Survivor's Handbook
Other Self-Help
The History of Positive Thinking
Child Abuse in the Hare Krishna Movement
Learn more about this case.
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.
My Study of Child Abuse in Cults
Nori's report published in the book, "Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships," by Janja Lalich and Madeleine Tobias, Bay Tree Publishing, Berkeley, California, 2006
Authoritarian Culture and Child Abuse in ISKCON
Nori's essay published in the Cultic Studies Review (Volume 3, Number 1, 2004)
Congressional Page Scandal
Thoughts on the origins of sexual harassment and abuse of minors in the halls of the U.S. Congress.
Links
Find websites dedicated to the issue of child abuse, along with links to the Children of Krishna.
Abuse Recovery
Chapter Two of A Cult Survivor's Handbook.
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
Click hereto read "Cult Survivor's Handbook."
"Witnessing torture stains the soul."
- Frank Smith, L.A. Times
23 May 04, in ref. to Abu Ghraib
