Pamela Pine
Bio
Pamela J Pine is an international public health specialist, professor, presenter, artist, and writer. She has worked in numerous areas (e.g., HIV/AIDS, leprosy, child sexual abuse) throughout the world, giving her an unusual perspective.
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An Ode to The Disorder:
Introduction: I began writing this story poem mid-decade and kept editing it, refining it, adding to it. It is a story, ultimately, of man’s more than inhumanity to wo/man – and the mess that people can make of lives. There are always reasons – upon reasons upon reasons – for behaviors, but many of them simply should not be tolerated. But, because I do ask the question about reasons, I also asked myself: Why do I want to publish this...? What I am hoping is that if this poem resonates at all with anyone who is on the receiving end of abuse, that it will underscore two things for you: 1) if you feel something, believe yourself, and, 2) that bad and mean and abusive behavior is just that - and should not be tolerated for any reason. If you can, as you can, how you can... draw your boundaries. Early. And keep them there. Get the help you need. Be strong. I have learned bunches. Hopefully, this will help someone else. So now it’s time to set her free…
By Pamela Pine4 years ago in Poets
My Passion:
Hundreds of girls practicing for the Olympics over the last 20 years were sexually abused by their assumed-to-be trusted coach. In the early 2000s, this story broke: priests in the Catholic Church were sexually abusing children. The Boy Scouts of America, in the face of a new wave of abuse allegations in 2019, filed for bankruptcy. So many, many more are abused by mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors, and others. Some children told when or shortly after they were abused. Nothing was done. By anyone. The children grew up. They told, some of them for another time. Now, after keeping the secret for decades in some instances because they were groomed and shamed and manipulated into doing that, something is sometimes done, by some, in some places – but definitively not in all. Some people are now saying: anyone dealing even remotely with children need to be trained; parents need to be educated; children need to be spoken to.
By Pamela Pine5 years ago in Humans
