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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: Help the Abused by Asking What They Needed
I have been reading a lot of things about child abuse, as I was severely abused myself as a child. I was so badly abused that my health physically and ...
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 Abuse
Bristol, 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 ...
Invest Some Money for the Prevention of Child Abuse
Investing in stocks, bonds and/or mutual funds is good for the economy. Investing in the prevention of child abuse also has an economic benefit.
This ...
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 Appearance
Note 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.
She talks about having a "Sacred Contract"...
From the Mouths of Babes 2 of 2
This dialogue (from Part 1 ) can go on and on. From the mouths of babes!
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 ...
Aboriginal Child Abuse in Residential Schools: An Apology
Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, last week took an historic step by apologizing to aboriginal people for government action taken over the course ...
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 ...
"Relationship Violence" vs. "Domestic Violence"
There is a distinction between relationship violence (RV) and domestic violence (DV).
The term "relationship violence" is used when there is emotional,...
Child Abuse Vs Spanking
Child 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 two-year-old nephew Jesus Hernandez was beaten to death
This story is for my nephew, Jesus. He is no longer able to share his story, for child abuse claimed his life. At the age of two, my nephew Jesus was such ...
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 ...
Sexual Assault Victims Will Tell Their Stories on Film
Sexual assault victims of former Vancouver, British Columbia teacher, Tom Ellison, will tell their stories in a film to be aired on Canada's CBC Newsworld....
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 ...
Child Abuse in the News
The following are captured from recent child abuse headlines:
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.
I have seen ...
Child Abuse: A Parent's Responsibility
Parents can be charged with child abuse—a felony charge—even when the abuse is by the hand of another.
Such is the case of an Oklahoma ...
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 ...
Prevent Child Abuse: Tips to Help Keep Your Child Safe in Daycare
Four things parents can do to protect a child in daycare:
1. Spot check the daycare regularly, unannounced
Quality caregivers welcome impromptu ...
A Case of Child Abuse Part 1
I'm still shaking. I just witnessed a case of child abuse, child neglect to be exact.
I was jogging down one of the streets in my neighbourhood when ...
A Case of Child Neglect Part 2
What does Aboriginal status have to do with child abuse?
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 ...
Lessons Learned From Spanking: An Issue of Child Abuse
I learned all those lessons (see article on this site What Spanking Really Teaches for a list of those lessons) from all the spankings I received from ...
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....
Child Abuse: Tell Me Vicky's Father Was Brought to Justice!
Darlene, I was downloading movies from an online source and accidently downloaded one that contained footage of a girl that was molested by her father ...
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 ...
Female circumcision a barbaric form of child abuse
Police in the U.K. are offering £20,000 reward ($40,000 U.S.) for information that would bring to justice anyone involved in female circumcision....
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 ...
Child Abuse an Epidemic in New Zealand
Three-year-old Nia Glassie has become the poster-child for child abuse in New Zealand.
Nia suffered severe head and abdominal injuries, allegedly inflicted ...
Sexual Abuse Under the Guise of Spanking for Discipline
I'm a married man who sought therapy for a spanking fetish I truly didn't understand until the last three years. Therapy is going well. Over the course ...
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 ...
Can Childhood Spankings be Administered Because of or Lead to a Spanking Fetish?
I'm often asked this question. Each time I attempt to answer it, or address the issue of spanking as an inappropriate form of discipline, I'm barraged ...
Budget for Child Abuse Prevention
There are 103.8 billion reason governments must budget for child abuse prevention.
$103.8 billion is the annual estimated cost of child abuse. This ...
Child Abuse Effects dot com Announcement and Regarding My Comments
To My Visitors: I'm so excited to announce that as of two days ago I started writing my next book, Healing from Child Abuse: Affirmations, Validations ...
Child Abuse: No one Seems to Care
This 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 Linger
The Effects of being abused linger on within each one of us: Since the horrific Ryan Report in institutions and schools supervised by Religious ...
Child Abuse Effects dot com Information About Story Comments
To My Visitors: If you left a comment on a child abuse story sometime yesterday (and today) and those comments do not yet appear live on the site, please ...
Child Abusers were Child Abuse Victims
Nurture 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 Lopez
WARNING: Contains graphic and highly disturbing details: This child abuse story is about a 5-month-old little girl named Brianna Lopez. On July ...
Special Report: Child Abuse in State-Run Reform School
Note from Darlene: I received the following submission several days ago. It's taken me some time to read the disturbing accounts of unimaginable ...
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 ...
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month: Baby James Foundation
The Baby James Foundation's (BJF) goal is to create nationally, an environment that assures: A network fighting to keep children safe out of their abuser'...
Emotional Child Abuse: Challenging the Limited Definition
Concerning Alienated Children: "Emotional child abuse is defined as the constant attack of a child or youth by an adult that negatively affects ...
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 Right
Being 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 Wrong
My "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 Military
Canadian 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 Videos
To 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 Advice
From 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 Out
Trying 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 ...
Taking the Investigation of Child Abuse Extremely Serious
As a 29-year veteran in the field of child abuse as an investigator, asst. supervisor, supervisor, and administrator, I have found the number one factor ...
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 ...
Child Abuse Effects dot com Video Reading From Chapter Good-byes
Did you know that I post weekly video readings from my e-book On My Own Terms, A Memoir here on www.child-abuse-effects.com? If not, you have some catching ...
Child Abuse Effects dot com Information About Automatic Notifications
To My Visitors: If you are currently relying on the automated notification system to advise you of all updates to my site here at www.child-abuse-...
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....
Child Abuse: The Silence
I have not made an entry here in some time.
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 ...
Message of Encouragement for Child Abuse Story Writers
I can't believe people would do that (child abuse). I have read books about stories of child abuse, but I will never feel how people felt. I am so sorry ...
Child Abuse: 2 year old Brian Hawes killed in Racine; mother only faces 1 charge
I live in Racine and know the Hawes family. Brian was killed a few weeks ago by his mother's live in boyfriend. He was arrested and charged with 2nd degree ...
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 Children
Child prostitution: A 9-year-old boy and his 8-year-old cousin told me it was a family tradition.
In 1993, an old friend called and said he ...
Child Abuse Effects dot com Video Reading From Chapter Mr Whitaker
Who ate first in your family? Your father? Your mother? The kids?
This week's reading from chapter titled Mr Whitaker , now ready to view on this site ...
Child Abuse Effects dot com Video Reading From Chapter Womanhood
Have you ever wondered how your parents' childhood experiences have affected the decisions they made about what was and wasn't (is and isn't) appropriate ...
Support a White House Conference on Children and Youth!
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is calling on Congress and the new President to hold a long overdue White House Conference on Children and Youth ...
Additional Articles on this Site:
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.
Gov't compensation for institutional child maltreatment
The Beattie Government in Australia has just announced a $100 million compensation fund for victims who suffered child maltreatment in state-run institutions.
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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