Please Don’t Call Me a Sexual Abuse Survivor

March 13, 2012
By Guest Blogger

Since the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State erupted last fall, it’s rare for me to go so much as a week without hearing about another similar incident. In media coverage, social commentary, and in my everyday professional and personal conversations, I have heard a lot of well-intentioned people talk about the children involved with disempowering language. These poor children. My heart breaks that their lives had to be ruined. Nobody should have to survive… Read More >