Hurts Me More Than You: Christine’s Story

“The stories of others in similar situations have been a life raft in my most troubled waters.”

Hurts Me More Than You: Jessie’s Story

“I’m seven years old, and I agreed to this… apparently.”

Hurts Me More Than You: Sophia and Odessa’s Stories

“It makes me wonder how a sexual poem came to justify child abuse and was conflated with the Bible.”

Michael Farris Recommends Child Training Manual That Promotes Beating Dogs and Spanking Infants

“At the end of Michael Farris, Sr.’s recent white paper, he recommended James Dobson’s The New Strong-Willed Child.”

I Didn’t Want to Be Broken, I Wanted to Be Whole: By Neriah

“I began to believe that my anorexia was a punishment from God intended to turn me toward him and my parents. It was my ‘pride’ and ‘haughtiness’ and my ‘lack of honor’ that caused me to come into such problems. Thus, if I listened to what God was trying to teach me, the hardships and pain of anorexia would be instrumental in my walk with God— and my depression and guilt and shame would go away.”