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A Hidden Epidemic
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.
Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence — From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
In 1990, Amy Grant tackled a topic that at the time seemed very taboo, a song that would become an anthem for girls and women who survived Child Molestation, or Rape at the hands of the adults in their lives. In the case of the particular song it was told from the perspective of a daughter who had been abused by her Father.
The fear of abandonment forced me to comply as a child, but I’m not forced to comply anymore. The key people in my life did reject me for telling the truth about my abuse, but I’m not alone. Even if the consequence for telling the truth is rejection from everyone I know, that’s not the same death threat that it was when I was a child. I’m a self-sufficient adult and abandonment no…
