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Originally Posted by SoNotHer
Great post and thank you for your good work. Yes, the denial is deep and widespread. I think the Penn State scandal speaks to that.
The numbers and percentages are telling, and anyone living with or working with children and teens should be looking carefully at signals like weight and self mutilation and substance abuse.
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Absolutely! Significant weight changes in kids gets missed often concerning sex abuse along with these other indicators. Plus it can involve serious eating disorders not related to sex abuse that can be deadly. Weight gain often is not looked at as a potential medical condition unless the parents are educated around nutrition and where their kids should be in terms of height. Also, one of the most missed symptoms of clinical depression in teens is irritability- so often explained away by usual teenage hormone fluctuations.
Oh yes, Penn State and denial- and the old boys networks at play with schools in college football where a lot of $ is brought into the school by sports teams. I like athletics, but, there needs to be some big changes in school athletics.
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I also wanted to post this NYT article for discussion-
The New Progressive Movement
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/op...me&ref=general