It feels like we drain each other like a shorted out battery.  Fantasizing about leaving is what gives strength for each day. I loath myself

This was an honor and tribute to the last twenty years since I escaped. A shout-out to all the folks I've met along the way.

Then, both the ladies stopped talking, and both seemed to realize that they were saying opposite things

Lily Rebecca an active Plain Mennonite woman who sought both professional and church support for mental health resources

Lydia Miller is an Amish child sexual abuse survivor who has been walking the path of living with the aftermath for years.

Let’s work with survivors and support them in finding their voice.

(The conversation about the arrest of an Anabaptist person for sexual abuse of a child being hijacked to say child sexual abuse is no...

As our final update on the results of the study, we would like to thank every one of our participants for being willing to share

It is the result of not giving the young men the proper education. Fathers cannot educate their sons because they also have no concept

To protect the privacy of participants, we summarized the responses to "How were you impacted by CSA?"

My name is Lauri Stoltzfus, and I recently saw a packet of materials sent to social work professors and college academic leaders

It doesn’t matter if the doctor said "it’s a girl" or "it’s a boy" neither is more valuable than the other. Both deserve equal rights.

On Sept 2, 2022 the below packet was shipped from The Misfit Amish via UPS to people at Goshen College & Bluffton University

We found that the highest rates of child sexual abuse were among those who were born Anabaptist (49%)

What you teach your children can be vital to the prevention of sexual violence in childhood.

People provided responses indicating what they called child sexual abuse.

There is a significant difference in the child sexual abuse experiences of the people who are currently Anabaptist.

Update on the research study: CSA in Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Anabaptist & Other Religious Communities with the calculated percentages.

When I called and reported the suspected abuse case of an Amish families children to the local civil authorities. The local county's...

" They often say if we were abused, we had a rebellious heart. Confessing will help us submit."