I Didn't Know (Audible Audio Edition) Yvette L AllenTatum Catherine Force Yvette L Allen Books
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I Didn't Know - Identifying, Confronting, & Overcoming Child Sexual Abuse - the title is indicative of the subject matter. In this book the author brings to the forefront the many faces of child sexual abuse; those of the victims and the abusers. Yvette Allen-Tatum boldly confronts her past of child sexual abuse to demonstrate that TRUE deliverance is possible. Yvette believes that we ALL (victims, abusers, enablers, nay-sayers, etc.) can OVERCOME the horrible effects of child sexual abuse.
\As a community, we have to a) identify child sexual abuse - we have to talk about it (raise public awareness), b) know the signs & symptoms, c) confront child sexual abuse - err on the side of caution - THE CHILD; be quick to BELIEVE the victim and make all necessary inquiries, d) studies show people are more apt to believe the innocence of the accused; this has to END, e) overcome child sexual abuse - we overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the WORD of OUR TESTIMONY.
I Didn't Know (Audible Audio Edition) Yvette L AllenTatum Catherine Force Yvette L Allen Books
Allen-Tatum’s (2013) book entitled I Didn’t Know: Identifying, Confronting, and Overcoming Child Sexual Abuse is filled with real life accounts of individuals’ reliving their lived experiences as victims of child predators and the personal journeys undertaken move from being known as a victim to a survivor. Allen-Tatum writes in a manner that speaks to her audience as though she were within one’s living room. Her honest writing style and stories of her personal memories, having fallen victim in the thralls of child sexual abuse, is something that all readers regardless of ethnicity or religious beliefs will find inspirational. It appears that Allen-Tatum desires that her readers know that child sexual abuse does exist and as a member of society, one must understand the language of the abuser to protect the life of the victim.As Allen-Tatum takes twists and turns within her recollection of her own victimization, her thought processes seem to race down a winding path filled with memories that begin with one event or person and then quickly shift to another event or person. Make no mistake that her thought processes were reflected by other individuals within this book, bringing the reader deeper into the heart and mind of what it means to be a victim and eventual a survivor of child sexual abuse. This book is a good read for any individual who had, has, or will ever have contact with children as the silence of child sexual abuse must be broken.
However, there were concerns related to formatting and sentence structuring. Some sentences ended abruptly, often leaving the reader with questions regarding what happened next. Even with random inclusions of information and capitalization of words that should not be capitalized, for a novice writer, Allen-Tatum does a good job in getting her message across---stopping child sexual abuse.
In the end, I found that the greatest take away from this book was for members of society to begin the conversation of understanding the signs of child sexual abuse and learning to speak UP and OUT against it. Allen-Tatum, a survivor, gives light and a voice to those who are still being victimized as well as those who have survived. Never again can any individual state that they lack knowledge with regard to child sexual abuse.
Dr. April J. Lisbon
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I Didn't Know (Audible Audio Edition) Yvette L AllenTatum Catherine Force Yvette L Allen Books Reviews
I received a copy of this book in return for a fair and honest review, which follows
There are few ways to rile my ire faster than to harm a child. In fact, that is the most expedient way to rile my ire...especially if that harm comes through sexual means. Unfortunately, as the news tells us every day, sexual abuse is rampant in our society...even targeted at children less than a year old (if you don't believe me, ask the 9 month old little girl who died after her mother "gave her" to her boyfriend for the night). I've seen many posts lately about "rape culture", and few of these dealing with the fact that grown men and women are not the only targets. Our precious ones, the "Dibbuns" (to borrow a term for young ones from Brian Jacques), are also targets. If only we talked about it more...
LONG STORY SHORT
Allen-Tatum has here a non-fiction work that shines a light on one of the aspects of our society that we want most to hide - sexual abuse aimed at minors....heck, sexual abuse in general. As a survivor of multiple instances of sexual abuse herself, Allen-Tatum speaks from harrowing experience about a subject that we want to pretend is relegated to Law and Order shows. Powerful language is used to talk about a powerful subject. Definitions are given that ensure one cannot walk away from the book saying "I didn't know...", or pretending sexual abuse is not running disturbingly rampant in our world. Real-world research and stories highlight this disturbing occurrence in this tool intended to educate people in order to protect them. Scripture is used to highlight God's healing power in the midst of the s*** storm of this life.
Despite the subject matter being something that I wholeheartedly agree needs to be discussed more in the name of prevention, the format of the book left something to be desired. I kept wanting to pull out my red editing pen to fix poorly constructed sentences, organizations of chapters that were confusing, and formatting errors in the printing of the book.
Because the formatting problems with the book overshadowed the valuable material contained within,
On an ascending scale of 1 to 5, I give this book a 3.
LONG STORY
The Good
Let's just get this out of the way - I have several close friends who have been sexually assaulted. I've wept with and over friends who have told me their devastating stories of abuse. This is a problem running rampant within our society, a rape culture that is highly sexist. If I ever find out that my son has sexually assaulted someone, I'll turn him in myself.
Allen-Tatum has here created a work that seeks to shed light on myths and truths about sexual assault in its various forms. She desperately wants to fulfill God's all on her life to minister to those in need, and the issue it appears she has been called to is educating the world about sexual assault. What is sexual assault? What are its various forms? Who is responsible? Why isn't it usually reported? What are the ramifications on both the victims and survivors of sexual assault?
This is a non-fiction book. It's a quick and easy read filled with difficult things. Allen-Tatum defines many terms that society probably wishes were left ambiguous. She describes her real-world experience with being a survivor of sexual abuse, as well as the stories of several others. She uses scholarly research, Scripture references (to the protestant Christian Bible), and a tone that one of my friends would call a "come to Jesus" tone that makes readers sit up and pay attention.
It is hard.
It calls us to realize hard things...such as that ignoring the issue revictimizes the victims of sexual assault, such as that children are sometimes not even safe with their own family members, such as that forgiveness is about setting the victim free.
It is something we need to talk about more, especially if we want to see more of the abuse that happens actually freaking reported (can you tell the lack of reporting is a personal hot button of mine?) so that more can be done to protect those who are targeted.
It is something that teenagers should read, so they are equipped to talk about the topic intelligently instead of regurgitating questionable ideas found in sound lyrics.
It highlights the importance of talking about this with our young children so they know how to report if - God forbit - it ever happens to them.
The Bugly (bad/ugly)
While I appreciated the content of this book, I did not appreciate how it was written. There are problems with how the chapters are organized (I'm sure there is a method to the madness, but I couldn't find it), poorly constructed sentences that are unnecessarily repetitive in all the wrong ways, fragmented sentences, random inclusions of information, Random Capitalizations of Words that Should Not Be Capitalized, Scripture passages yanked completely out of context (as a seminary educated person as well, I'm touchy on this topic), and citations at the end that are just plain not done properly.
I understand that Allen-Tatum is a very well educated, well qualified woman to speak on the subject. That much is obvious. I do not understand how this work got past an editor in this shape (if it hasn't been through a professional editor, it needs to be). In honesty it feels like a stream-of-consciousness work that was cleaned up only a little bit. Were this a person, it would be a highly attractive person, but with disheveled hair, wrinkled and mismatching clothes, and perhaps a hole in a shoe in the wrong place.
For the sake of spreading this message in as effective a way as possible, I want to see this run through an editor so the glaring problems with grammar, sentence and paragraph formation, organization, etc do not detract from the quality of the content. The content is superb...the presentation is terrible.
Allen-Tatum’s (2013) book entitled I Didn’t Know Identifying, Confronting, and Overcoming Child Sexual Abuse is filled with real life accounts of individuals’ reliving their lived experiences as victims of child predators and the personal journeys undertaken move from being known as a victim to a survivor. Allen-Tatum writes in a manner that speaks to her audience as though she were within one’s living room. Her honest writing style and stories of her personal memories, having fallen victim in the thralls of child sexual abuse, is something that all readers regardless of ethnicity or religious beliefs will find inspirational. It appears that Allen-Tatum desires that her readers know that child sexual abuse does exist and as a member of society, one must understand the language of the abuser to protect the life of the victim.
As Allen-Tatum takes twists and turns within her recollection of her own victimization, her thought processes seem to race down a winding path filled with memories that begin with one event or person and then quickly shift to another event or person. Make no mistake that her thought processes were reflected by other individuals within this book, bringing the reader deeper into the heart and mind of what it means to be a victim and eventual a survivor of child sexual abuse. This book is a good read for any individual who had, has, or will ever have contact with children as the silence of child sexual abuse must be broken.
However, there were concerns related to formatting and sentence structuring. Some sentences ended abruptly, often leaving the reader with questions regarding what happened next. Even with random inclusions of information and capitalization of words that should not be capitalized, for a novice writer, Allen-Tatum does a good job in getting her message across---stopping child sexual abuse.
In the end, I found that the greatest take away from this book was for members of society to begin the conversation of understanding the signs of child sexual abuse and learning to speak UP and OUT against it. Allen-Tatum, a survivor, gives light and a voice to those who are still being victimized as well as those who have survived. Never again can any individual state that they lack knowledge with regard to child sexual abuse.
Dr. April J. Lisbon
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