There are four main categories of child abuse: neglect, physical abuse, psychological or emotional abuse, and sexual abuse. A child could be subjected to more than one of these. As adults, it takes… Read More
As I sit here watching the news everyday .. I feel like there are a thousand worms crawling on my skin. I want to hide. I want to run away. I’ve been away… Read More
If you find strong language offensive or if you are under 18, please do not read this post. I am writing this disclaimer in the beginning as I know many of my friends… Read More
Child sexual abuse is extremely difficult to detect mainly because of the secrecy that surrounds it. Children are often threatened or coerced by perpetrators into remaining silent and are frightened of the consequences… Read More
“I asked my students in Grade IV to write an essay on ‘What is that one thing which scares you the most?’. A student wrote about her father’s best friend. She wrote that… Read More
Wanting a bus snack for the school bus ride home, ‘And it shouldn’t be Marie biscuits.’ Wanting to read ‘one hundred and ninety-nine bedtime books.’ Needing a stool to stand on while brushing… Read More
(An attempt to tell a story in Haiku form) ****** ‘Bad uncle…’ the child whispers uneasily. Mother glances at Neighbour… kind and respectable. She nudges her irritably, ‘Chup*… Bad girl!‘ ****** (Innumerable cases of child… Read More
A month ago, had met a single mother of an adult boy who was sexually abused by a close female relative as a child. The mother was being overtly sympathetic towards the abuser… Read More
It is like one of those things that people know exists – yet something that people do not want to acknowledge. All of us know for certain that this is a big bad world… Read More
For the past three weeks, I’ve been working with an NGO that strives to eradicate child sexual abuse from India. Truth be told, they haven’t had much success so far. Primarily because of the… Read More
