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Foster Care Part 2 *trigger warning*
Foster family number 3 In 1991, I was placed with a black family who were personal friends with placement number 2. The new family lived in the same area, a few streets away from foster family number 2. Within four … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, childhood abuse, CSA, family, foster care, healing, historic abuse, Mental Health, mental-health, social work, Trauma
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The Interrelation of CSA and Personal Circumstance.
Child sexual abuse affects every survivor differently — but the outcomes are not shaped by trauma alone. Class, race, gender, economics, and family systems interrelate with how survivors experience abuse, how they are responded to, and how they recover. Drawing … Continue reading
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Tagged child abuse, dwp-uk, foster care, healing, historic abuse, social services, social-services-uk
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BOOK – Child Sexual Abuse in Protective Custody: From a Lived Perspective.
I am writing a book based on my own lived experience within the Bristol City Care system. It is a book broken down into subsections and parts. That include Life Circumstance, Police, Courts & Legislation, Mental Health & Well-Being, and … Continue reading
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The Character Assassination of Foster Children: A Hidden Truth Within the UK Care System
By a survivor of the Bristol City Council care system (1980s–1990s) A Silent Injustice Hidden in Plain Sight The character assassination of foster children is one of society’s most uncomfortable secrets. It rarely enters public debate because it forces us … Continue reading
Child Sexual Abuse, being a foster child, and Justice
When one thinks of CSA and Justice, they think of a criminal process of arrest, sentencing and remedy. In the world of CSA, that is anything but the truth.. In CSA there are many hurdles to get over. The first … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, child abuse, children, CSA, foster care, historic abuse, justice, local authorities, parenting, social services, society
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Historic Abuse Survey – Pilot Study for Research Purposes.
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Tagged historic abuse, Pilot study, Research, Sexual abuse, Survey
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Recovering Repressed Memories: A Survivor’s Journey Through Fragmented Trauma and Systemic Neglect
Recovering repressed traumatic memories is not a simple act of remembering — it is an unravelling of pain, confusion, and truth. From the perspective of a survivor of child sexual abuse in care, this piece explores the lived experience of … Continue reading
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Tagged Chilchood, healing, historic abuse, Memory, mental-health, ptsd, Recovered memory, therapy, Trauma
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Yes we do! Sorry for your experience, hopefully by talking about how these experiences impact us, we can create change,…