By Tara Overzat I can only hope that appropriate sentencing of child abusers has come along way since the late 90s, but I am not sure that is the case. It is as if there is a [...]
Read moreBy Tara Overzat To paraphrase one of my professors, bad things flourish in the dark. By getting these things out of the shadows, we stand to lessen their power over us. That tends to be what so much of my writing is about. Today, I’m going to take one of my mind’s memes out from [...]
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By Tara Overzat The best thing to do when people are treating you poorly is to tell them to stop. That it’s unacceptable. If they care about you, they will. If they don’t, they probably won’t. When someone continues to take advantage of you, disrespect you, abuse you, you need to make a change. You [...]
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By Tara Overzat Received the darnedest voicemail Thanksgiving morning. A relative was going on about being all alone on the holiday “as usual” and saying, oh well, this is how it has to be until something better comes along. This relative has always put herself in the role of the martyr, the never-ending sufferer. Truth [...]
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By Tara Overzat Last night’s Dateline focused on the October 2007 murder of Rhoni Reuter, longtime girlfriend of ’85 Chicago Bears star Shaun Gayle. Often these Datelines are predictable and all fingers point to the significant other. Reuter, however, who was several months pregnant was instead killed by one of Shaun’s many other girlfriends, a [...]
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Sexual abuse is another devastating facet of child abuse. It can cause children, who are too young to process what has happened to them, to act out in many ways- including sexually. The following is a clip showing the further unraveling of a family whose been torn apart by one man’s sexual predation.
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