Sentences with phrase «as victims of abuse»

[FN36] This suggests that women who choose to signal their lack of tolerance for abuse not by leaving early but by fighting back, verbally or physically, for some period of time, will not be viewed as victims of abuse.

Too many animals come to the shelter as victims of abuse or hit and run accidents.

Most of the rest are impounded, either for behavior or as victims of abuse and neglect.»

The two chums return for optional commentary over six deleted scenes, many of which constitute a subplot that paints Angie as a victim of abuse — something that «felt didactic» according to Affleck.

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As robots enter daily life and workplaces, some have been victims of abuse by people in the workplace.

The «Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation Prevention Program» (EIFFE Prevention Program) educates healthcare and legal professionals to recognize when their older patients and clients may be vulnerable to or victims of financial abuse, particularly those patients with mild cognitive impairment, and then to refer these at - risk patients to State Securities Regulators, local adult protective services professionals or for further screening and assistance as needed.

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As a victim of gender abuse herself, Galpin made the overnight decision that the world needs to change and that she has to be a part of that change.

Your comments very clearly could have been taken as promoting the silencing of the victims of abuse.

Advocates for victims saw the posts as a sign of favour for Law by church officials unrepentant about abused children.

PS - I am a Catholic and religious person... and as a family member of two abuse victims I will no longer go to church.

You are just a victim of the child abuse that is religion, you were brainwashed with it as a child.

Please support victims of clergy abuse and create productive discussion about how we as a society can prevent future children from abuse, inside and outside the walls of the Catholic Church.

When I did come forward as an abuse victim, this part of my past was wielded like a weapon by some of the elders to further discredit my concern, essentially saying that I was imposing my own perspective or that my judgment was too clouded.

Thank you for anyone who has the courage to apologize — the one thing I'd ask moving forward is that you don't qualify your apology by citing what the survivor of emergent abuse (I like this term better than victim) did or did not do — as we've noted before, when someone is in the throes of prolonged abuse and trauma, they will do / say things in response that will seem somewhat «batshit crazy.»

«I beg your forgiveness, too, for the sins of omission on the part of Church leaders who did not respond adequately to reports of abuse made by family members, as well as by abuse victims themselves,» Francis said in the homily, according to a text of the statement provided by the Vatican.

Whatever genuine aid SNAP may provide victims of priestly sex abuse is well matched by the harm SNAP does by mounting little less than an anti-Catholic smear campaign and wantonly portraying every priest as a sexual predator waiting to happen and every bishop an enabler.

Repeatedly when I have shared of practicing forgiveness it has been wrongly perceived as silencing victims and supporting abuse.

(CNN)- Catholic bishops «will be held accountable» for failing to protect children from sexual abuse, Pope Francis said Monday, his strongest acknowledgment yet of what abuse victims have been saying for decades: that the cover - ups have often been as bad as the crimes.

I have found this to work for victims and survivors as well with the enabling of healing and freeing from fear, to have a voice which is then conducive to the establishment of healthy boundaries and therefore prevention of similar experiences of abuse.

For some victims, forgiveness will be an ongoing process as they heal from the wounds of abuse.

Though many don't realize it, the after effects of sexual abuse are deep and painful, and worldviews of abuse are often distorted and adopted by victims, such as fear of intimacy, unhealthy views toward sex, and even hatred of one's own body.

Victims of clerical sexual abuse planned rallies in Rome on Friday as cardinals held a day of reflection and prayer on the issue.

As you may know, Sovereign Grace Ministries, an association of Reformed church plants, is facing a significant lawsuit that alleges church leaders covered up the abuse of children by discouraging parents from reporting abuse to authorities and requiring victims to forgive their abusers in person.

Finnegan's other attorney, Dan Monahan - who also filed the suits on behalf of the previous two alleged victims of sexual abuse - said he would file as many lawsuits as he has to.

Tragically too, evil behavior can inflict lasting damage on other people's personalities — as for example in the loss of self - respect in those who are the victims of violence and sexual abuse.

SNAP, the Survivors» Network of those Abused by Priests, said as it released the list Wednesday that its accusations were based on media reports, legal filings and victims» statements.

DeSalvo, whose previous work includes an edition of an early version of one of Virginia Woolf's novels and a collection of letters from Vita Sackville - West to Woolf, argues that other biographers of Woolf (particularly Quentin Bell) have glossed over the formative traumas of her early life, dismissing them as unimportant and in effect blaming the victim for the abuse she suffered.

Although the judge's decision did not deal with whether or not the sexual abuse actually happened, this latest turn of events is something of a victory for SGM, whose legal strategy has been to first argue that the First Amendment gives pastors the right to discourage victims of abuse from reporting the crimes against them to police and second to argue that the case should be thrown out on technicalities, such as the statute of limitations.

But a U.S. - based victims» group, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, dismissed the event as «window dressing» on Monday.

As we learned during our series on abuse in the church, cases of fabricated allegations of child abuse are quite rare, so when this many consistent counts are leveled against an organization, we should be wary of jumping to the defense of the accused and treating the alleged victims as liarAs we learned during our series on abuse in the church, cases of fabricated allegations of child abuse are quite rare, so when this many consistent counts are leveled against an organization, we should be wary of jumping to the defense of the accused and treating the alleged victims as liaras liars.

I address this topic with credentials for three reasons: I delivered spiritual abuse as a pastor; I was a recipient of spiritual abuse; and I care about the victims and do what I can to help.

They speak of church cultures that treated women's bodies as inherently problematic and seductive, that assigned a woman's worth to her sexual purity or procreative prowess, that questioned women's ability to think rationally or make decisions without the leadership of men, that blamed victims of sexual abuse for inviting the abuse or tempting the abuser, that shamed women who did not «joyfully submit» to their husband and find contentment in their roles as helpers and homemakers, and that effectively silenced victims of abuse by telling women and children that reporting the crime would reflect poorly on the church and thus damage the reputation of Christ.

But, beginning as a small community outreach program for families in need two years ago, our project quickly evolved into a counseling center skilled in treating the victims of sexual abuse.

Blaine Tamaki, an attorney in Yakima, Washington, described the payment as «the largest settlement between a religious order and abuse victims in the history of the United States.»

The Society of Jesus» Pacific Northwest unit and its insurers have agreed to pay a record $ 166.1 million to about 470 people who were sexually and psychologically abused as children by Jesuit priests from the 1940s to the 1990s, the victims» attorneys said Friday.

Lansch said, «While we are troubled with the notion of zero tolerance, we accept it reluctantly as an appropriate response to abusive priests in the wake of life long damage to the souls of thousands of innocent victims of s3xual abuse.

Abuse victims from the Diocese of Chichester in the 1950s and 1960s will give evidence, as well as those who were preyed upon in the 1990s during a scandal which «engulfed the diocese in the first decade of the 21?

As a Portlander, a child abuse victim and church follower I'm deeply saddened and embarrassed by the actions of the church leaders in this story.

While we all know painful stories of friends and family who were victims of injustice, spiritual abuse, and unhealthy environments, it is possible to thrive as we use our gifts to serve Jesus and bless others.

That could also be perceived as «cruel» by victims of spiritual abuse.

The words of your post sound as if you are more concerned about victims behavior than you are the abuse they have received and the extreme mental and emotion trauma they have experienced.

We can never be satisfied as long as some believers fall victim of the unspeakable horrors of spiritual abuse.

I predict that this year Americans will take the thousands of victims of clergy abuse and the intentional cover ups by the catholic church seriously enough to hold the vatican accountable, Yes, instead of letting them get away with cheap, as usual, apologies hundreds of years later.

(CNN)- The Vatican begged forgiveness from Irish victims of child sexual abuse by priests as it released a major report into the problem Tuesday, but victims responded with anger and disbelief at the report's finding that new safeguards are working.

They are leading tortured lives and they come to church for comfort and healing and more often than not, male victims of sexual abuse are not given the same regard as females.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

The Vatican, in its statement Monday, said, «The word «chiacchiericcio» (gossip) was erroneously interpreted as disrespectful to the victims of sexual abuse.»

We can also explore stories of personal efforts to find a more expansive covenant with others, such as in biographies of alcoholics, homosexuals, divorcees or victims of abuse.

Students who see themselves as victims of discrimination and abuse are demanding that professors issue warnings about materials in courses they are teaching that might cause strong negative emotional responses in student psyches.