Category: child abuse

Symptom of our society, really, to deal with our problems with drugs, and usually, labels to justify using those drugs. Who needs wisdom or common sense, patience or tolerance, human understanding or clever problem solving. It’s big daddy pharmaceutical to the rescue, with sometimes tragic consequences.  
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070712/ap_on_re_us/toddler_booted
ATLANTA – A woman said she and her toddler son were kicked [...]

http://www.answers.com/topic/diagnostic-and-statistical-manual-of-mental-disorders 
The DSM has seen criticisms through the years. A Columbia University team headed by Robert Spitzer, an editor of the DSM, acknowledges a concern about the DSM in their annual report of 2001, “Problems with the current DSM-IV categorical (present vs. absent) approach to the classification of personality disorders have long been recognized by clinicians [...]

ABC News - Preachers Accused of Sins and Crimes on 20/20. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3034040&page=1
Ken Ward is a Southern Baptist pastor and teacher in East Texas, who has admitted to molesting more than 40 boys. He said that being a teacher and minister is the perfect job for a child molester, because it puts the molester in direct contact [...]

Just saw a W-Five report on a pedophile priest in Canada. Trying to find it online but no success. I have found this article instead, which is quite shocking if you were to click it and read it in its entirety. Gives some background on why pedophile priests may have historically been protected, their abuses kept hidden, their [...]

http://www.infoforhealth.org/pr/l11/l11chap3_3.shtml
 
Image from Info for Health and the Hesperian Foundation http://www.hesperian.org/
I’ve been reading how some claim incest was a positive or neutral experience for them. Of course, there are those who claim corporal punishment was a good thing for them too. So they see nothing wrong in meting out physical punishment to their own children when they misbehave, or otherwise. 
Why [...]

From http://www.operationdoubles.com/narc/
Malignant narcissists have an inferiority complex. So, their narcissism is a COMPENSATORY egomania. It is caused by shame and is low esteem in disguise. Quite the opposite of someone who just has a big head…
That underlying shame and self loathing is what makes a malignant narcissist malignant. Whereas narcissistic-but-normal people have big heads, malignant [...]

Here are several links to some good books on narcissism.

The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love, and Family
In Sheep’s Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People
Why Is It Always About You? : Saving Yourself from the Narcissists in Your Life

Think I’ll be buying the books. Became very interested in [...]

I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return. – W. H. Auden
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070207/national/cda_child_porn
By Sue Bailey
OTTAWA (CP) – News of a Canadian link to a major international child-pornography ring is the latest in a growing number of horrific homegrown cases, says a top investigator.
“We’re up to our knees in [...]