
‘Alice’ sent this harrowing testimony about growing up in a UK children’s home through our Share Your Story page.
“Sexual access is always on the table, not in any necessarily formal sense, but when men know girls (and boys) are desperate to have something other than nothing, there’s an implicit prospect of sexual bartering. Desperation for love or attention coupled with the overwhelming likelihood no one would ever believe us about anything meant we all, unbeknownst to us, had big neon target signs above our heads.” Read More