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Gormy Cuss

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3. The social pressure against telling when it's a family member is really damaging.

Reply to pleinair (Original post)

Sun Jul 27, 2014, 01:51 PM

Jul 2014

I've known several families where the "teller" enabled three generations of women and men to tell, finally.
I also know too many adults who didn't want to report sexual abuse by intimate partners and later ended up in the hospital or morgue.

To hell with rapists and abusers.

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Rape-Culture-Smashing Website [View all] pleinair Jul 2014 OP

Very much needed. brer cat Jul 2014 #1

very much agree pleinair Jul 2014 #2

The social pressure against telling when it's a family member is really damaging. Gormy Cuss Jul 2014 #3

Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2014 #4