Karen Carpenter said : “For sexual abuse, we tend to think of some strange persons outside of the home sexually abusing a female child. That’s not the case,”

jamaica-gleaner Sunday, June 6, 2021 11:13:00 AM EAT

Karen Carpenter noted : “Many of the reasons for early pregnancies, intergenerational abuses, and where the early pregnancies continue, are because we continue to hold the myths of the culture [that] ‘if you have sex the first time, you can’t get pregnant’, or ‘if you have sex standing up you can’t get pregnant’ ... or that ‘it is just a little sex’,” “These myths are passed through generations. Sleeping in one bed with everybody, including someone who is not part of the original family... When everybody is sleeping in the same bed and the man or the woman becomes horny, what do you think happens? Everybody is affected by it”

jamaica-gleaner Sunday, June 6, 2021 11:13:00 AM EAT

Karen Carpenter told : “Some of them have not had the service, not as seasoned. I am not disappointed that more women aren’t in the Cabinet because I am confident that more women will end up in the Cabinet as time goes on,”

jamaica-gleaner Saturday, September 12, 2020 8:42:00 AM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “The big impact is if everybody is at home and the abuser is a family member, they are at home with them. By the way, the abuser can be female or male. You think of it more as male but it can be either one. And so it makes it more difficult when they are there all the time because again it’s difficult to call for help. It’s difficult to even call and get advice, it’s difficult if it’s a very controlling relationship and they don’t want the person calling anyone,”

pnc Wednesday, August 19, 2020 12:03:00 PM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “It was very interesting because in the beginning when we first went into lockdown, about the first two weeks we saw a decrease. And I think that’s because people really were scared they didn’t want to leave their situations they didn’t know what they could expect as far as safety if they left,”

pnc Tuesday, August 18, 2020 12:39:00 PM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “A couple of weeks people had been home longer and if it had been an abusive relationship it just increased during that time,”

pnc Tuesday, August 18, 2020 12:39:00 PM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “We’ve seen some serious cases, well, they are all serious, so I will put that out there in the beginning. But we have seen more serious cases, we have seen some that are not as serious which is what we normally see,”

pnc Tuesday, August 18, 2020 12:39:00 PM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “I think it’s because they are having a hard time calling us themselves because they are with their abuser at home. But somehow, they can text or let other family and friends know what’s going on and then they call us and ask us questions so that maybe they can get the answers back to the victim,”

pnc Tuesday, August 18, 2020 12:39:00 PM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “Otherwise we wouldn't have heard about it (sexual harassment) through counsellors and psychologists,”

jamaicaobserver Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:20:00 AM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “It fails to recognise sexual harassment as an offence that negatively impacts the mental health and wellness of the victim,”

jamaica-gleaner Friday, July 3, 2020 10:14:00 AM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “The cost of that, obviously, is loss of work because people stay away from the workplace, people avoid coming in, people do not perform as well,”

jamaica-gleaner Friday, July 3, 2020 10:14:00 AM EAT

Karen Carpenter admitted : "I was an ambitious, goofy little kid," "When my family was on vacation in East Tennessee, I found a telephone book and called every record label I could find. I can’t imagine how annoying that must have been for whoever was on the other end of the line"

foxnews Friday, March 6, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : "At the level of his education he ought to have been able to speak in a way that shows greater emotional intelligence,"

jamaica-gleaner Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:01:00 AM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “For sexual abuse, we tend to think of some strange persons outside of the home sexually abusing a female child. That’s not the case,”

jamaica-gleaner Sunday, June 6, 2021 11:13:00 AM EAT

Karen Carpenter noted : “Many of the reasons for early pregnancies, intergenerational abuses, and where the early pregnancies continue, are because we continue to hold the myths of the culture [that] ‘if you have sex the first time, you can’t get pregnant’, or ‘if you have sex standing up you can’t get pregnant’ ... or that ‘it is just a little sex’,” “These myths are passed through generations. Sleeping in one bed with everybody, including someone who is not part of the original family... When everybody is sleeping in the same bed and the man or the woman becomes horny, what do you think happens? Everybody is affected by it”

jamaica-gleaner Sunday, June 6, 2021 11:13:00 AM EAT

Karen Carpenter told : “Some of them have not had the service, not as seasoned. I am not disappointed that more women aren’t in the Cabinet because I am confident that more women will end up in the Cabinet as time goes on,”

jamaica-gleaner Saturday, September 12, 2020 8:42:00 AM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “The big impact is if everybody is at home and the abuser is a family member, they are at home with them. By the way, the abuser can be female or male. You think of it more as male but it can be either one. And so it makes it more difficult when they are there all the time because again it’s difficult to call for help. It’s difficult to even call and get advice, it’s difficult if it’s a very controlling relationship and they don’t want the person calling anyone,”

pnc Wednesday, August 19, 2020 12:03:00 PM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “It was very interesting because in the beginning when we first went into lockdown, about the first two weeks we saw a decrease. And I think that’s because people really were scared they didn’t want to leave their situations they didn’t know what they could expect as far as safety if they left,”

pnc Tuesday, August 18, 2020 12:39:00 PM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “A couple of weeks people had been home longer and if it had been an abusive relationship it just increased during that time,”

pnc Tuesday, August 18, 2020 12:39:00 PM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “We’ve seen some serious cases, well, they are all serious, so I will put that out there in the beginning. But we have seen more serious cases, we have seen some that are not as serious which is what we normally see,”

pnc Tuesday, August 18, 2020 12:39:00 PM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “I think it’s because they are having a hard time calling us themselves because they are with their abuser at home. But somehow, they can text or let other family and friends know what’s going on and then they call us and ask us questions so that maybe they can get the answers back to the victim,”

pnc Tuesday, August 18, 2020 12:39:00 PM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “Otherwise we wouldn't have heard about it (sexual harassment) through counsellors and psychologists,”

jamaicaobserver Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:20:00 AM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “It fails to recognise sexual harassment as an offence that negatively impacts the mental health and wellness of the victim,”

jamaica-gleaner Friday, July 3, 2020 10:14:00 AM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : “The cost of that, obviously, is loss of work because people stay away from the workplace, people avoid coming in, people do not perform as well,”

jamaica-gleaner Friday, July 3, 2020 10:14:00 AM EAT

Karen Carpenter admitted : "I was an ambitious, goofy little kid," "When my family was on vacation in East Tennessee, I found a telephone book and called every record label I could find. I can’t imagine how annoying that must have been for whoever was on the other end of the line"

foxnews Friday, March 6, 2020 1:21:00 PM EAT

Karen Carpenter said : "At the level of his education he ought to have been able to speak in a way that shows greater emotional intelligence,"

jamaica-gleaner Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:01:00 AM EAT