Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Carolyn Spring

Quote by Carolyn Spring

“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't until 1984 that the Department of Health added the category of "sexual abuse" to its list of harms that can befall children? When I was being raped and made pregnant at the age of 11, it wasn't just my own dissociative process that told me that it wasn't happening; it was society too. "We don't have a category for that. Computer says no."͏”

Quote by Carolyn Spring

Book:Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices
Create image

Work

Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Carolyn Spring

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Carolyn Spring. more

You May Also Like

“If you were sexually abused & could not go to your family for support, you deserve to realize that your family failed you fundamentally. Your parents did not provide a safe atmosphere of support & protection for their children, which is a parent’s first responsibility. It was not your fault.”

HealingSexual AbuseChild Sexual AbuseHealing AbuseChild ProtectionParental RelationshipParental ResponsibilityHealing Insighs
Book:Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse
Create image

“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed? After all, it was only in the 19070s that the Paedophile Information Exchange had argued for adults’ right to have sex with children – or rather by a slippery sleight of word, PIE inverted the imperative by arguing that children should have the right to have sex with adults. This group had been disbanded after the imprisonment of Tom O’Carroll, its leader, with some of its activists bunkered in Holland’s paedophile enclaves, only to re-appear over the parapets in the sex crime controversies of the 1990s. How recent it was, then, that paedophilia was fielded as one of the liberation movements, how many of those on the left and right of the political firmament, were – and still are – persuaded that sex with children is merely another case for individual freedom? Few people in Britain at the turn of the century publicly defend adults’ rights to sex with children. But some do, and they are to be found nesting in the coalition crusading against evidence of sexual suffering. They have learned from the 1970s, masked their intentions and diverted attention on to ‘the system’. Others may not have come out for paedophilia but they are apparently content to enter into political alliances with those who have. We believe that this makes their critique of survivors and their allies unreliable. Others genuinely believe in false memories, but may not be aware of the credentials of some of their advisors.”

PoliticalSufferingRightsCrimeAbuseVictimDenialSurvivorChild AbuseSexual AbuseRapeChild Sexual AbuseSurvivorsSlipperyIncestCriminalVictimsAbusersDysfunctional FamilySociety DenialLiberalFalse MemoriesPedophileChild ProtectionSex OffendersPaedophileHidden MotivesCrusadePaedophile Information Exchange
Book:Stolen Voices: The People and Politics Behind the Campaign to Discredit Childhood Testimony
Create image

“The substance of the attacks on the reality of organized abuse and torture of children always reduce to that old chestnut—it is unscientific. “Give us proof,” say the naysayers. “How is this different from reports of alien abduction?” say the clever-clever wags of Private Eye. Indeed. How is it different? In the case of alien abduction, we are asked to believe that visitors to this planet from outer space have kidnapped someone, taken them away, and brought them back. It is not believable. In the case of ritual abuse, we are asked to believe that people can organize themselves into groups for the purpose of torturing children. There would seem to be a significant difference here in what we are asked to believe.”

TortureRitual AbuseSociety DenialSatanic Ritual AbuseChild ProtectionOrganized AbuseMoral PanicSatanic PanicSadistic AbusePedophile RingsMoral PanicsSystematic Abuse
Book:Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs
Create image

“In order to establish the narrative that innocent men have been the victims of an epidemic of false allegations, “moral panic” advocates have misrepresented child protection interventions and legal cases in significant ways (R. Cheit, 2014; Kitzinger, 2004; Michael Salter, 2016). This has included championing the cause of convicted sex offenders despite overwhelming evidence of guilt (R. Cheit, 2014; R. E. Cheit, 2001; Olio & Cornell, 1998).”

Sexual AbuseChild Sexual AbuseHysteriaRitual AbusePseudoscienceChild ProtectionMoral PanicFalse AllegationsMiscarriages Of Justice
Book:The History of Surrealist Painting
Create image