Worldwide child abuse news can be difficult to find in your local newspaper, or even on one website. But thanks to the people at Google, this has now changed...
Up-to-date news is now available on this site!
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Acrimonious Divorce Constitutes Child Abuse?
Italian prosecutors in Milan feel the psychological suffering inflicted on a 12-year-old boy by a couple going through an acrimonious divorce, constitutes ...
Child Abuse: Miracles Do Happen
I know, without doubt, that families are Eternal and that we are ALL children of heavenly parents, on loan to our birth parents. When we procreate and ...
Child Abuse Story From a Worried Citizen
I have disclosed my own child abuse and my recovery on this site (see Child Abuse Story From Mary3 and Story of Healing From Mary ). What I would like ...
Child Abuse: Dehumanization of the Human Mind
It is imperative to avoid abusing the child as most of the problems of today's world are as a result of child abuse. In recent times when individuals have ...
£320,000 to Reduce the Effects of Child AbuseBristol, United Kingdom: The Big Lottery Fund in the United Kingdom has got it right. The fund recently granted £320,000 to provide specialist ...
Promote Child Abuse Awareness: Run 100 Triathlons
Promote Child Abuse Awareness by running 100 triathlons? That was the method John Curtain of Lake St. Louis chose to increase the awareness of child abuse....
Child Abuse in Schools
Sadly, in 21 of our United States, teachers, who are licensed and trained professionals are allowed by law to abuse children. Hundreds of thousands of ...
Child Killer Sentenced to Death
Joseph Edward Duncan III was sentenced to death by an Idaho jury. In 2005 he kidnapped Dylan Groene and his sister Shasta. During the kidnapping he killed ...
Punishment Gone Wrong: A Precursor to Child Abuse?
It was a sale in a hall normally used for sporting events. When I arrived to find some bargains, only a handful of people were present. At one of the counters ...
Child Abuse: Related Answers and Replies
I have recently come under fire over answers and replies I've provided to contributors who have written me through my Ask Darlene, as well as several other ...
School Phobia and Child Abuse
Anxiety in children about going to school is very common, especially in children who are about to start school for the first time. A child may fear the ...
Child Abuse: How to Heal
My earliest memory was being whipped mercilessly with an electrical chord for the high crime of jumping up and down on the bed with my brothers. I still ...
Child Abuse News: Essential or Extraneous?
Child abuse is evil. Child abuse news reporting is not. In fact, in the opinion of this writer, child abuse news reporting by all forms of media has helped ...
The Core
I'm just realizing all of the opportunity as a small child for my growth. And, I'm realizing I didn't get the nurturance and I didn't get positive reinforcement,...
Diaper Discipline: Reality vs AppearanceNote from Darlene: With permission from the author, this post was moved from the comments section of an Ask Darlene page titled Is diaper discipline ...
Kitten Nightmare
I awoke remembering a nightmare and I still can't shake it.
I was on my front steps and my dog was out there with me. My sister-in-law was on the perimeter ...
Null and Void
I think I've read every self-help book ever written. And Caroline Mysse has some really interesting concepts.
I begin to understand a little bit more. The chain smoking to self-soothe,...
From the Mouths of Babes 1 of 2
For decades I've led these Julia Cameron "Artist's Way" Circles/Workshops. She wrote the text in the 80's so it can feel dated but it always heals. I'...
Child Abuse: If I knew then, what I know now...
...what would I do differently? Keep a record. Dates, times, levels of attacks (0-10 on the rage-o-meter). Written somewhere safe. Treat her (my mother'...
Child Abuse at Swingers Club
Child abuse in a swingers club? Yes, it's true. In November of 2004 in Mineola, Texas as a result of allegations of child neglect and drug abuse, Child ...
Child Abuse Ignored By Teachers News Item: In the past three years, teachers in New South Wales, Australia have failed to report cases of child abuse and neglect in at least 44 ...
Child abuse sentence of 15 years upheld
Hey Darlene, love this Google Child Abuse news feed you have implemented. Gives me an opportunity to read and comment on child abuse news all in one place....
Child abuse allegations go unreported
In the State of California, allegations of child abuse must be reported by district employees. State law and district policy mandate the reporting of any ...
Boys Suffer Child Abuse in Polygamist Sect
There is no question in my mind that girls at the Yearning for Zion Ranch (YZR) in Eldorado, Texas suffer sexual child abuse. The religious doctrine of ...
Child Abuse May Alter Gene Structure
Child abuse victims who have committed suicide may have done so as a result of chemical changes in their brain genes that were caused by suffering childhood ...
Where Were Child Protection Services?
Two senior social workers in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada said they had never before seen such an abused and traumatized child. When the 4-year-...
Child Abuse and Polygamy
Child abuse and polygamy - polygamy and child abuse: Are these words synonymous? It certainly would appear so, based on the preliminary information obtained ...
The term "relationship violence" is used when there is emotional,...
Child Abuse Vs SpankingChild Abuse vs Spanking: California Assemblywoman Sally Lieber (D-Mountain View) has sponsored a bill (AB 2943) which would ban the use of an implement,...
Kelsey's Law
Great that the state (Oklahoma) passed this law. I do not believe that children should be subjected to evident child abuse. I believe in cases like this,...
My Redemption from Self-Blame
I was 13 and shared a bed with my elder brother of 17 as was our custom coming from quite a large family. I was awoken one night to discover my manhood ...
As The Loss of Innocence Spreads
Recently, my brother went upstairs to check on his five-year-old son, three-year-old daughter and six-year-old playmate. He found the three together in ...
I Was On Oprah
Twenty years ago, I was part of a group of men who were among the first to speak openly about our sexually abusive childhoods. Mike Lew, a foremost specialist ...
Internet Child Solicitation Laws in Indiana
I have a daughter who is about to turn seven. This fall her father, 36 years old, will be off probation for six counts of child solicitation via a computer ...
No Help From Government
It's a shame that our government doesn't acknowledge there are more types of abuse against children than just physical. After four years of trying to get ...
Child Abuser Wants to Become a Counsellor
Help me please! Another acquaintance of mine has done the same thing. I mean he has initially been an abuser, come clean and is apparently now ready to ...
How Could a Child of Seven Remember?
Earlier in the year I was greatly distressed to hear and see on national TV a high profile cleric say in the defence of another member of the clergy, that ...
Is This Type of Violence Considered Child Abuse?
This article was inspired by a comment received on one of my commentary pages. The now 16-year-old girl described a violent and sexually abusive relationship ...
Oprah Deals with Abuse Allegations in African School
Oprah has been in the news over the past couple of weeks over allegations of sexual misconduct and physical abuse in her much-touted African school for ...
Child Sexual Predator - ANOTHER UPDATE
The Canadian school teacher wanted by Interpol for sexual crimes against young Asian boys was arrested in northeastern Thailand yesterday.
The world'...
Child Sexual Predator - UPDATE
The manhunt for Christopher Paul Neil, the child sexual predator whose distorted image police reconstructed last week, is now focused on Bangkok, Thailand,...
Why Aren't We Picketing Child Abuse?
Let's start this off by saying I was abused as a child myself. I wasn't as adversely affected by it as much as some other girls. I'm saying that, as an ...
Have You Seen This Sexual Predator?
Interpol has made a global appeal for help in identifying the man you see in the professionally enhanced image above.
Photographs posted on the Internet ...
Toddler's Death Results in New Oklahoma Law
The death of a toddler from Meeker, Oklahoma in October 2005 prompted state senators to pass House Bill 2840, the Kelsey Smith-Briggs Child Protection ...
Lancing, Tennessee couple face child abuse charges when their 7-week-old daughter was ...
Outraged at Public Response to Child Abuse
A 27-year-old mother of three was arrested earlier this month on a charge of felony child abuse after a neighbor lodged a complaint with authorities. When ...
Resiliency a Plus, Don't Keep Abuse a Secret
I wrote the article Legal System Fails, Cycle of Abuse Continues. I now write a follow-up as to how things are going at this point in time.
Legal System Fails, Cycle Of Abuse Continues
In 2000 I was awarded sole custody of my children due to my ex-husband's abuse and aggression, the placement was supervised by my ex's sister. During my ...
Parricide is a Child Abuse Effect
Child abuse can result in parricide, the killing of one's mother or father. Such is the case of a 13-year-old who is charged with killing her 34-year-old ...
Last week I reported witnessing a case of child neglect after I discovered a caregiver had ...
Getting Away With Sexual Assault of a Child
I am a 42-year-old woman living on Long Island in New York and I have a 10-year-old son who was sexually abused by my own daughter 5 years ago. This has ...
Child Abuse: My Daughter Has No Rights
My daughter was sexually abused by her dad. That was 5 years and many evaluations ago. The courts in Passaic County do not care about children's rights....
What Spanking Really Teaches
The vast majority believe it is their right to spank their child as a form of discipline. Some quote the Bible, arguing that it is their parental duty ...
Dr. Phil: An Episode Worth Watching
Most abuse victims fantasize a confrontation with their abusers. Few have the opportunity to have the world's most famous PhD mediate such a confrontation....
Autism, Child Abuse and Neglect
Parents of autistic children have been fighting the provincial governments in Canada for years over getting subsidized specialized care for their autistic ...
Sexual Child Abuse: Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Out of the range of disturbing experiences in our lives, the act of having been sexually abused/raped/molested as a child is surely one of the most traumatic ...
Making Excuses for Sexual Abuse Allows Sexual Abuse
My 6- and 5-year-old granddaughters are placed with the father, who lives with the grandfather. The 6-year-old had revealed earlier that her father had ...
Child Abuse: Dispelling 6 Myths About Self Blame
The following are statements I receive from abuse victims, both children and adults, almost every day through my website. I'm addressing them here in an ...
Child Abuse and Constitutional Rights
A Santa Monica English-as-a-second-language-middle-school teacher has been charged with 14 felony counts of sexual molestation. The allegations indicate ...
Spanking: A Case for Sexual Assault
Recently, I was on a forum where a parent described and extolled the virtues of administering a bare-bottom spanking to her 13-year-old daughter. The mother ...
Why Parents Target a Specific Child for Abuse
Research into target-child selection, a term that is sometimes used to describe incidences where a parent singles out one child for abuse, is extremely ...
Child Abuse News: Indiana State Supreme Court Ruling
Recently, I posted an article about how child abuse news stories in the media have a positive effect on changing laws (see post at Child Abuse News: Essential ...
Ways to Stop Child Abuse
I just wanted to write a page about ways that we can prevent children from suffering at the hands of abusers. From what I have learned over the years in ...
Child Abuse: No one Seems to CareThis story happened a long time ago: In 2000 there was a couple that spent the summer in a beautiful lake next to a park. They had a son that was ...
Child Abuse by Religious Orders in Ireland
After nearly 10 years of investigation, Ireland's Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, was finally published last month. The Ryan Report was made public ...
Child Abuse Effects LingerThe Effects of being abused linger on within each one of us: Since the horrific Ryan Report in institutions and schools supervised by Religious ...
Child Abusers were Child Abuse VictimsNurture the inner child!! I ran from my parental home at 19 years of age. I recall even now how I once stood in a phone box crying for my father'...
Death by Child Abuse: Nixzmary Brown
Nixzmary Brown (July 18, 1998 – January 11, 2006) was just 7 years old when she died. Her step-father Cesar Rodriguez slammed her head on a bathtub faucet ...
Child Abuse Death of Baby Brianna LopezWARNING: Contains graphic and highly disturbing details: This child abuse story is about a 5-month-old little girl named Brianna Lopez. On July ...
Bad Economy Increases Child Abuse
Reading the child abuse news flashes above (on the child abuse articles page), I noted a report in the Flathead Beacon which indicated Montana's Flathead ...
Child Abuse Cause: Making a Difference
I haven't been able to look at this website since my last entry...I haven't really had the courage to do it...I started to feel nervous, sweaty, impatient ...
Child Abuse: A Concerned Voice for the Downtrodden
It is not actually an easy duty to protect the interest of such innocent souls who are placed to be victims of irresponsible parenting. The cry for a better ...
child-abuse-effects is a Safe Haven
I feel the relief and release of hang up feelings/doubts/fears I've had built up inside me regarding having been abused by the beatings on my bare bottom ...
The Effects of Child Abuse
Child Abuse hurts. It hurts really bad. It changes who you are and how you move in the world. Cautious, fearful and shame-based, you live hiding, often ...
Overcoming Child Abuse With Love
Here I am again. Darlene's site has opened my eyes further to the wrongfulness of abuse in children/teenagers/adolescents. My abuse was bad, and though ...
Child Abuse Can Never Be RightBeing abused as a child/teenager/adolescent can never (ever) be right or justified in anyway: I quickly read Tabi's story of 18 years, emotionally ...
Child Abuse Comment From Another Thread
What follows below is a comment that came through my page titled Can Childhood Spankings be Administered Because of or Lead to a Spanking Fetish? I've ...
Even a Murderer Knows Child Abuse is WrongMy "Handicapped" Neighbor: There I was, in my front yard watering the plants, listening to the birds. In my mind were images of beautiful landscapes ...
Child Abuse in Canadian MilitaryCanadian Military Members Sexual Abusing Children as Young as 12: I am 42 years old. When I was 11 or 12 years old I was raped by an acquaintance ...
Child Abuse and How to Understand the Abuser
Nothing condones what child abusers have done or will do. They are very weak and sick people, and in most cases just want to be abusers. All know the power ...
Lack of Child Abuse Resources for Survivors
I have been in therapy many times over the years and no one has been able to help me with my haunted past. I have had a number of traumatic experiences ...
Child Abuse Effects dot com Submissions and VideosTo My Visitors: You may have noticed there have been no new story, commentary, article, etc. submissions posted for 2 - 3 days on child-abuse-effects....
Child Abuse: What I Got Out of It
When graduating from Indiana Business College I would like to have a career in Social Work. My reasoning behind it is in my life I have been through what ...
Child Abuse, My Father and a Family in Denial
I start out this child abuse article on a piece of painful abuse. My daughter is 9 years old. She recently told me about some abuse going on for at least ...
Child Abuse Prevention AdviceFrom a Parent to Other Parents: Here are a few tips that I would like to share with parents about our experience that may be helpful in their own ...
Twins Suffer Child Abuse: A Mother Speaks OutTrying to be a strong mother for my children: My 2.5 year old twin son and daughter had been physically and sexually abused by a live-in caregiver ...
Child Abuse and a Journey of Revelations
It's been almost a year since I put a child abuse article on this website. The abuse wasn't mine, nor was I involved directly with abusing. It dealt with ...
Prevent Child Abuse with Classes
I think there should be a form where people have to sign if they want children. Abuse is getting out of hand and people need to think straight. I just ...
Child Abuse and the Grace of Forgiveness
I'm amazed by the work done in this page by such a wonderful woman. I cannot imagine the amounts of people that have been helped by all it has provided....
My Mother is a rage-aholic and I survived sexual abuse and then abandonment from my Father. In some ways ...
Most sexual child abuse is not intercourse
I am tired of reading posts about sexual abuse that refer to sex between adult and child as if that is the only form of sexual abuse, or that advise parents ...
Child Abuse: Pedophiles Groom and Manipulate
Unknowingly, I lived with a pedophile for about 5 months. He was my boyfriend, and when we broke up, I started writing down all my memories and realized ...
The Child-Abuse-Economic-Downturn Connection
Incidents of child abuse are on the rise in the United States, with some county child abuse prevention organizations reporting they've seen as much as ...
Bad Case of Child Abuse
Baby M * was only 2 years of age when her parents tortured her to death. They used cigarettes to burn her earlobes off, starved her, forced her to drink ...
Feasibility of Online Child Abuse Support Group?Support for those recovering from spanking abuse and fetish? I've been reading through some articles, specifically about the pain and humiliation ...
Diaper Discipline, Child Abuse and Secrets
The following article was written in response to a comment made on my Ask Darlene page Is diaper discipline child abuse? The comment by MJ dated July ...
When We Dispose of ChildrenChild prostitution: A 9-year-old boy and his 8-year-old cousin told me it was a family tradition.
Supreme Court rules no duty to parents Child welfare agencies have the right to remove children from families without fear of retribution from those families, according to Canada's highest court.
Abuse rates rise during deployment Incidents of abuse and neglect skyrocket among U.S. military families when the spouse is deployed to war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
Is religious education a form of abuse? Religion violates the rights of children, according to Innaiah Narisetti, chairman of the India chapter of the Center for Inquiry.
Legalized sexual abuse in Japan A father in Japan admitted to suddenly touching his then 11-year-old daughter’s breast in order to "measure her sexual growth".
Jail time vs. rehab for pedophiles Jim Gamble, a senior policeman in charge of child protection in an England community . . . suggested policing rather than jail time should be considered for pedophilia.
Sex offenders use history of abuse as defense Two Australian men . . . claimed they abducted a 14-year-old boy and repeatedly sexually assaulted him over a 21-day period because they themselves were victims of childhood sexual abuse.
Guest Article By Freeland Journalist Derek Robertson With over 80,000 reported cases a year of sexual abuse in the United States alone, and with it estimated to be at least that number of unreported cases, it's become clear . . .
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