Sentences with phrase «pedophilic abuse»

The theory and practice of recovered memory were discredited in the late 1990s — not before thousands of fathers, grandfathers, brothers, uncles, and teachers had been jailed, sued, or just estranged over recovered memories of pedophilic abuse.

Equally popular is the notion that pedophilic abuse causes profound psychological damage to victims, always and irreparably.

He argues that pedophilic abuse (when it does occur) is indeed the practical consequence of patriarchal power structures.

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They hope to show that the drug, which lowers testosterone levels in the body, will reduce the pedophilic impulses that might cause people to abuse a child.

Employing admirable restraint while focusing on the crack team of Boston reporters who exposed the pedophilic crimes being committed by members of the clergy, this riveting film ends up being about the awful abuse of power as much as about that last - gasp period before journalism shifted from being a conduit of reliable information into a circus act of celebrity reporters riding unicycles of distortion and deceit.