31 January 2008
BBC NEWS | UK | Lords issue landmark abuse ruling
Victims of sexual abuse may be able to sue their attackers after many years, following a ruling by the Law Lords.
31 December 2007
BAD GIRLS CLUB speaks to anyone who has faced adversity and understands what it’s like to stare down a giant.
“Bad Girls Club is as riveting as Dave Pelzer’s A Child Called It books, but is far better at exploring the psychological reasons why the abused remain so loyal to their abusers.” Midwest Book Review
8 October 2007
Tired of keeping his life-long secrets, author Dominic Carter, described by some as the best of New York’s political television reporters, shares his remarkable, gut-wrenching story of abuse at the hands of his mother in No Momma’s Boy.
26 September 2007
National Post – Barbara Kay: Forgetting the male victims of child abuse
At the age of 26, 10 years before earning his first million dollars as cofounder of the Second Cup coffee empire, Frank O’Dea was a homeless alcoholic panhandler. Almost 40 years on, the reason for his life of desperate squalor — three rapes during his boyhood — is revealed in O’Dea’s new book, When All You Have is Hope. With no therapeutic outreach available to help him, he plunged into a ruinous downward spiral.