Sexual Abuse

How to Report a Sex Crime Within the Family

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Family sex crimes can include any form of nonconsensual or coerced sex between relatives of any age. Follow these steps to report the offense... more »

How to Seek Treatment After You Have Been Date Raped

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If you are the victim of date rape, it is important to seek help right away... more »

How to Accept a Hug After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Many adult survivors of child abuse have a difficult time accepting hugs from well-meaning friends and family. Because physical contact often involved pain and betrayal, it is difficult for a child abuse survivor to feel comfortable accepting ... more »

How to Achieve Integration After Childhood Abuse

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Many abused children fragment their souls in order to survive the abuse. Most repress their emotions, and many internally distance themselves from the needy "inner child." This can result in a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder ... more »

How to Avoid Being Overprotective After Child Abuse

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After an adult survivor of child abuse has her life dramatically affected by child abuse, it is easy for her to react by becoming overprotective of her own children. She wants to protect their well-being at any cost, but becoming overly ... more »

How to cope with the medical exam after you’ve been raped.

By Scott Lindquist

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The evidentiary exam is an examination for the purpose of obtaining evidence of sexual assault. It may include a pelvic exam. If forced sodomy or forced oral sex was performed, additional exams may be required of other parts of your body. The ... more »

How to Endure Holiday Season After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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The holidays are a particularly difficult time for many adult survivors of child abuse. For abused children, the holiday season is a painful time. Contact is severed with positive influences, such as friends and teachers, leaving the child in the ... more »

How to Escape Or Help Someone Escape Domestic Violence And Abuse

By D Moore

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If you or someone you know needs to escape a violent environment or abusive situation help is out there. Domestic violence can feel like a helpless situation with limited options. While options may not be as plentiful as they should be there are ... more »

How to Feel Empowered After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Survivors of child abuse often feel as if they are victims of life. Their victim mentality can limit their success in adulthood, not only professionally but personally as well. While it is true that they were victims in childhood, only child ... more »

How to Feel Loved After Child Abuse

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Adult survivors of child abuse often feel unloved. Many of their needs to feel loved and cherished as a child were never met, and those unmet needs continue to leave holes inside of the adult child abuse survivor. Child abuse survivors might turn ... more »

How to Find a Rape Crisis Hotline

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When sexual intercourse is forced upon another individual without consent and under duress, a rape has occurred. In the United States, more than 50 percent of all rapes are not reported and victims often go without proper treatment or counseling. ... more »

How to Find Counseling After a Sexual Assault

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A sexual assault occurs when sex is forced on a victim. If you have been sexually assaulted, you should seek professional assistance counseling as soon as possible. Follow these steps... more »

How to Find Counseling for Child Sex Crime Victims

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If you know a child victim of a sex crime, you can obtain counseling and other resources to help them overcome the trauma and stress of the assault. Follow these steps to find professional assistance... more »

How to Forgive Self After Forced Animal Cruelty

By FaithAllen

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Some children are forced to harm animals as part of their own child abuse. Abusers prey on the helpless, so they often harm both children and animals. Forcing a child to harm an animal is another way to break a child's will and cause him to feel ... more »

How to Forgive Self for Harming Others During Child Abuse

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Some adult survivors of child abuse wrestle with guilt and shame after being forced to harm other children as part of their own abuse. Some child abusers will force one child to harm another child by physically hurting the other child or by ... more »

How to Forgive Yourself After Ritual Child Abuse

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Ritual child abuse often involves trying to break the child's will by forcing him to choose between two unacceptable alternatives that violate the child's moral code. For example, a ritual abuser might force a child to harm an animal or another ... more »

How to Get Through the First 4 Stages of Rape Recovery

By Scott Lindquist

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The following reactions may occur in any order and be experienced at different intervals. You may stay in one stage for a long time, or you may skip one or more stages entirely. If you feel stuck in a particular stage for a long time, your ... more »

How to Give Emotional Support to Victims of Forced Animal Cruelty

By FaithAllen

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Some child abusers force their victims to harm animals. Child abusers prey on the weak, so some harm both children and animals together. They might force a child to physically hurt an animal, or they might force the animal and child to have ... more »

How to Heal from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

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Children who suffer from ongoing and severe trauma in early childhood sometimes develop Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). DID is a coping mechanism that enables a young child to survive severe trauma by compartmentalizing her experiences and ... more »

How to Heal From Rape and Sexual Assault

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Healing from rape or sexual assault is a long process that takes time. Many options exist for the rape or sexual assault victim to aide them in their recovery and regain control over their lives and emotional state... more »

How to Identify Pedophilia

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In a time where online predators haunt the Internet and sex offenders live almost unnoticed in the suburbs, awareness of pedophilia is key to its prevention. A pedophile is a child molester. This dangerous state can have devastating effects on a ... more »

How to Know a Sex Crime Victim's Legal Rights

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Sex crimes are defined as rape, attempted rape or sexual assault and incest. Although a sex crime victim's rights to privacy and prosecution are guaranteed in the US, sometimes the onus is on the victim to find out how to pursue legal recourse. ... more »

How to Know What to Do After a Sex Crime

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Sex crimes include rape, attempted rape (which is referred to in some states as sexual assault) and incest. The violation of your body makes it be hard to know what to do immediately after a sex crime. In the US, it is estimated that more than ... more »

How to know what will happen to you during an Evidentiary Exam.

By Scott Lindquist

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After the rape or sexual assault, the trauma of the Evidentiary Exam can be terrifying. The following information will tell you not only what will happen during the medical examination process but also what your rights are. Even if you were able ... more »

How to Know Your Rights with Sexual Harassment

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Sexual harassment in the workplace can vary from unwanted physical contact to sexually offensive jokes or comments, to the display of sexually offensive materials. As awareness has increased, the victim's rights in sexual harassment cases have ... more »

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