For years, the government of Ireland has denied liability for child sexual abuse by teachers in state-financed schools managed by the Roman Catholic Church. The European Court of Human Rights punctured this denial Tuesday with a finding that the Irish...
Animal abuse is often the first visible sign a family is living with the threat of domestic violence. More than 70 percent of women who enter a shelter report their abuser has hurt, killed or threatened the family pet. When animal cruelty...
The money spent on relationship education is little more than a rounding error in TANF’s $17 billion budget, but why spend any of those precious resources on a program that appears to be failing miserably? That’s what Benjamin Karney...
Dr. Siegel is among the world's most compassionate experts on human attachment, and this goes for all human interaction. Please share if possible....
Thank you, Shelley Calissendorff for your "Smile at Your Baby" photo on this on Facebook! If you haven't seen this video yet, this is the Gold Standard to illustrate what Allan Schore calls "attunement." It shows how attunement creates...
Looking at this through a trauma-informed lens, if their parents were included in the therapy, would more children benefit? Results of the federally funded research, to be published online Jan. 29 in the journal JAMA Psychiatry ,...
"Parents spank with good intentions -- they believe it will promote good behavior, and they don't intend to harm the child. But research increasingly indicates that spanking is actually a harmful practice," said Holden, lead author on the study....
(Left to right, Jessica Letarte, Elsa Higareda, Diana Ayala, Glenda Linares, David Gomez, and Ben Wright) Here's a few of our conference team, hard at work. Behind them is our highly advanced workshop scheduling tool, otherwise known as a wall. We...
Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, f ounder and executive director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and a 2013 MacArthur Foundation genius award winner, wrote this essay for The Field Clinic on Philly.com. For nearly 15 years we’ve...
Toni J., an effervescent 16-year-old who talks on speed-dial, lives with 11 family members in West Oakland, on a street buffeted by gang activity and poverty. Her mother died of an overdose, her father in a revenge shooting. In ninth grade, she was...
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Today a legal challenge to the benefit cap will be brought by three families, two of them victims of domestic violence, in the court of appeal. The benefit cap has wide implications. Solicitor Rebekah Carrier describes it as "catastrophic,...
A priest told a former resident of a church-run children's home in Northern Ireland that he was the product of an evil and satanic relationship, an inquiry has heard. The son of an unmarried mother said he became a zombie, introverted and fearing the...
Dr. Kemi Alli, chief medical officer at the Henry J. Austin Health Center in Trenton, wrote this op-ed for NJ.com. Nothing is more important to the people of Trenton than our children. Recently, the Public Health Management Corporation released...