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To: annyokie
Yes, but I've read those same statistics from several sources. This is not a case of recovered memories stacking the stats.

On the issue of repressing memmory, I think it does happen, and I think there are many false claims. The comments at the site I linked you to said as much.

I have seen the long term effects of child sexual abuse up close. It's horrible, and it is like a cancer that grows. As the child matures, she looks back and reinterprets the event (non-professional analysis). So the trauma mutates and grows over time. It is really tough, and it is very difficult for the child to come to terms with it. The last thing we need to do is to teach kids that they should tolerate everyone's sexual identity. That is not even close to appropriate for cartoon age children.

33 posted on 01/22/2005 12:04:12 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

There is a tremendous difference between repressed memories and "recovered" memories.

Many people will repress traumatic/anguishing experiences----and this is at any age, not just childhood. One does not "recover" memories; either you have memories or you do not. Many people are influenced by quack psychologists/therapists to blame their current life problems on "abuse" that has been cued by the "therapist."


By no means am I excusing real abuse, physical, sexual, psychological, but the number of those "abused" has sky-rocketed over the last 20 years, and most of them are under the care of "therapists."


40 posted on 01/22/2005 12:13:22 PM PST by annyokie (If the shoe fits, put 'em both on!)
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