What is disclosure?
A disclosure of sexual abuse may mean something different to a parent than it does to a child. So we need to listen. Because when children disclose, and are believed, we’re all healthier.
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Thank you Betsy Devos. Just the incentive we needed
Title IX guarantees women and girls equal access to education, and protection against sex discrimination, including sexual assault.
Middle aged white men are dying, en masse from “diseases of despair” like suicide and overdose
Middle aged white men are dying, en masse from “diseases of despair” like suicide and overdose. We know why, so what are we doing to prevent it?
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Why Kurt Cobain is not the only one.
Kurt Cobain’s story wasn’t one of personal failure despite societal gifts, but rather one of a person succumbing to his ACE score and the laws of statistics
“No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either.”
I had just gotten a phone call from the D.A.’s office the day before letting me know that my rape case before the grand jury had been no-billed
I want a divorce
I want a divorce. These four words would forever change my life. I blurted them out without even hesitating as I sat in the car.
Bill Cosby and the “look how well I turned out” defense
Bill Cosby joked about being abused as a child, and the punchline was “look how well I turned out”. That argument deserves re-examination.
Monday Morning…
One mother’s story about a small boy, superman, punishment and bruises, tears, and a state that considers it acceptable to harm children.
They break, you know
They break, you know. These children we leave behind. Foster care kids have high Adverse Childhood Experience scores. Like all children they thrive on love.
Sex offenders. Should we castrate them?
We all say we don’t like sex offenders, but we don’t like protecting kids from them, either
The story of surviving myself
A great life, the consequences of childhood trauma catching up, surviving and then going on to found the Stop Abuse Campaign
Why I Choose to be Fat
I will not be measured and weighed and found wanting. I’m going to be OK as I am, even if what I am is obese. Find out why I choose to be fat.
Hawaii, support an ACE resolution
Hawaii has introduced a resolution to raise awareness about the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study. The Stop Abuse Campaign urges them to pass it.
Substance-abuse doc says: Stop chasing the drug! Focus on ACEs.
Prominent addiction expert says we need to think of addiction as a response to childhood adversity. A ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking.
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The Safe Child Act. Protecting children in custody court [2]
The Safe Child Act has the potential to improve our broken family court system in dramatic ways.
Parental Rights for Rapists
Parental rights for rapists? Massachusetts amended a domestic violence law to grant parental rights to convicted rapists who impregnate their victims.
One Mom’s Story
Like one quarter of American women, I was in a mom in an abusive relationship. When I realized he was abusing my kids I left, and raised my children myself.
Kelly Rutherford’s Children Lose Custody Case
Kelly Rutherford was involved in an all too common custody case. The circumstances would suggest the court had an easy decision; maintain custody with the mother. But the court instead reached a decision that defies logic and clearly places the children in jeopardy. ...
How neglecting children shapes their brain
Neglect shapes the brain. Scienceline articles compares the electrical charges inside orphaned and foster children’s brains. Children need love not neglect.
