And we will keep shouting from the rooftops and the airways... WE WILL NOT GO AWAY... Ann
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"More than 15,000 survivors or their relatives have contacted the commission." Almost as soon as they can speak, children learn from the reactions of adults that speech has consequences. They try to work out what they should and should not say, when and to whom. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse calls for a systematic overhaul of structure and governance practices which allowed cultures of abuse to flourish. After far too many lost decades, some children - many of them now adults themselves - have had their say in the final report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The commission acknowledged that thousands more remain silent, unable or unwilling to disclose what they went through. So now it is the adults' turn to speak up. The commission's recommendation that ministers of religion, out-of-home care workers, registered psychologists and school counsellors be placed under the same mandatory reporting laws as police, doctors and nurses when it comes to child sexual abuse should be a beacon to all of us: silence is no defence. We cannot pass by and hope someone else will see, and say. In this scenario, the responsibility is ours.
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-editorial/hear-the-childrens-voices-honour-their-cries-with-action-20171218-h06fag.html
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"More than 15,000 survivors or their relatives have contacted the commission." Almost as soon as they can speak, children learn from the reactions of adults that speech has consequences. They try to work out what they should and should not say, when and to whom. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse calls for a systematic overhaul of structure and governance practices which allowed cultures of abuse to flourish. After far too many lost decades, some children - many of them now adults themselves - have had their say in the final report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The commission acknowledged that thousands more remain silent, unable or unwilling to disclose what they went through. So now it is the adults' turn to speak up. The commission's recommendation that ministers of religion, out-of-home care workers, registered psychologists and school counsellors be placed under the same mandatory reporting laws as police, doctors and nurses when it comes to child sexual abuse should be a beacon to all of us: silence is no defence. We cannot pass by and hope someone else will see, and say. In this scenario, the responsibility is ours.
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-editorial/hear-the-childrens-voices-honour-their-cries-with-action-20171218-h06fag.html