Ergebnis für "Boyhood" in Missbrauch

By the age of sixteen, up to one in six boys has unwanted direct sexual contact with an older person. This is rarely talked about, and when it is, shame and embarrassment often stop us from speaking up openly and frankly. Now, this major new book by Dr. Richard Gartner, a pioneering therapist in the field, explores in depth the once-taboo subject of male sexual victimization.

At 13 years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker. Stephen, whose father had died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who then grooms and molests him for two years. The boy tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his life: self-loathing, drugs, petty crime, and horrific nightmares, all made worse by the discovery that his abuser is moving from camp to camp, state to state, molesting countless other boys.

Jensen Anderson was abused by several people in his life. His adoptive mother physically and mentally abused him and starved him. He was sexually abused by numerous males in his life, as a child, teen, and as an adult. He was a very "easy" target for all the males in his life for sexual abuse. Jensen would take sexual and physical abuse for attention, he has a fear of being rejected. He never had a chance for love by a parent or a companion.