text: Do people realize what a historical step SNAP took?  Child sexual abuse had been covered up for centuries.  Psychiatrists covered it up for over 100 years.  With the women's movement of the 1970s women started sharing their life stories and women's magazines started covering it.  Still the psychiatrists refused to hear--and they were advising the Catholic Church on this!  
  It was because of so many survivors in the Catholic Church who came together and, with the eventual support of their families, and lawyers willing to take their cases--and NCR publishing the earliest reports--that forced the situation into the open for every child.  (And remember the word limit on Civil Comments limits what I can say).
  Even today the psychiatrists have not yet formally recognized Developmental Trauma, although their colleagues have been working to change this for over 25 years.  Like ending racial prejudice this takes more time and work than seems reasonable or possible...see below