In an earlier post, I talked about child neglect (known as an "act of omission"). On the other end of the spectrum of child abuse is physical abuse, an act of commission. According to U.S. Department ...

Childhood trauma occurs more often than you might think and if it goes unaddressed, the potential consequences can be devastating, affecting the individual's life well into adulthood. Nothing matters ...

A single mother said she was left “traumatised” after she was stopped at an airport by police for suspected child trafficking. Bridgetta Tomarchio, 45, was travelling with her four-year-old son to go ...

Jennifer Steele is education coordinator for Tharros Place, which supports minors who are victims of human trafficking in the Coastal Empire. When I was a teenager, returning to school in the fall was ...

Excellent and adequate parents naturally do their best to nurture and protect their children. Despite the best efforts of these parents, some children engage in behaviors that threaten their parents ...

Common sense tells us that the fastest way to break a young person’s brain is to show them horror movies and scenes of abject violence. But this is also a bit misleading: screen-based trauma doesn’t ...

A child who was five at the time when he was involved in a tractor accident had been underpaid in the damages that the court had previously mandated the Road Accident Fund (RAF) to pay him. This is ...