Child Abuse and Stockholm Syndrome

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Child Abuse and Stockholm Syndrome

by Anonymous
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I have been reading quite a few stories on here to try to gain some perspective of my own past. I see a pattern that of a lot of the victims keep saying they went along with things even though they hated it but don't understand why. I'm not a medical professional, and it's just my opinion, but i think these individuals should look into some stuff about "Stockholm Syndrome". There's a good writeup in Wikipedia.

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Oct 22, 2010

To Anonymous:
by: Darlene Barriere - Webmaster

While I can understand why you would consider Stockholm Syndrome (SS) as applicable in child abuse, SS is very specific to hostage situations. With SS, the hostage not only goes along with their captors, they do so willingly and emotionally. And while there may be an argument for similar types of psychological effects, the dynamic already present with the vast majority of child abuse situations enters into the picture. Most children are abused by someone they know and trust. Someone they not only have a relationship with, but someone they depend on, and have depended on their entire lives. Most of the people who write their stories on this site are adults, some are adolescents. The reason they now question why they didn't do something is because they are applying adult, mature values to what they did or did not do as children. As children they had no power, no ability to control their circumstances, but as adults, they cannot fathom the coping skills that they adopted as children. Coping skills that might include saying and doing things they couldn't even begin to say or do as adults. In essence, they are "groomed". It's not quite the same with SS, where hostages mistake a lack of abuse as an act of kindness. I suggest two pages on my site:

Sexual Abuse Victims

Sex Offenders

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this matter with my visitors and me.

Darlene Barriere
Webmaster: www.child-abuse-effects.com
author. speaker. survivor. coach
From Victim to Victory, a memoir

Jan 02, 2011

why as adults we let children go though this
by: Anonymous

Why not stop child abuse, we need better laws for children, In Ohio you can hits your child with any
inanimate ob;ect that mean any thing a lamp, wire
anything. if you keep them home and doctor them
yourself you are safe. you go to court for punching two ladies, you can get some dirt lawyer
that could care less about the children ,and you are turn in to child services by gil you are a officer of the court and the child service tell you that, the children are not dieing this the fifth time for the family, by teachers,gtl,two grandmother,

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