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Meanwhile in Australia Calls For Reporting Requirements
While our attention has been focused on the big news taking place in the UK, down in Australia, political leaders are making calls to add priests, even in confessional, to the list of required reporters of child abuse. The Church, naturally, disagrees and considers this interference with religious practice, since the confessional has always been…
Underscoring the Fact That The Abuser is Normally Someone Already Known to Kids
By now, I would hope that most of my readers know that most abuse is not a result of strangers abducting children, but something much closer to home. Abusers are mostly people known to kids, and to families. The reason the child abduction cases garner so much attention when they happen is because they are…
As We See Rising Rates of Anxiety and Depression for Young People, Is A Lack of Sleep Contributing to it?
I don’t know that we have a definitive answer to that question, but what we do know is that anxiety and depression among kids and teens is on the rise, and that a lack of sleep, at worst, is a contributing factor to mental health issues like those, and, at best, doesn’t help anyone struggling…
Barnardos Campaign starts 3rd November from 8pm UK time
UK TV Channel 4 has already screened a mini-teaser letting people know about the launch time for the promo, because the campaign revolves around “Michael’s Story”. Being November, the annual Children in Need campaign on BBC television and the Remembrance Day Poppy Appeal of the Royal British Legion will attract a lot more attention and…
Link – 60% girls, 35% boys abused sexually in childhood: Survey
“”For a sexual abuse victim, getting family support is a must. It leaves the child mentally traumatised and can also cause severe depression for a lifetime. In the survey, we found that 20 per cent respondents reported abuse to parents but only about half of the parents enquired further into the matter,” said Dr Mundada….
Observer “Magazine” Modern Blogging Motivation Article
Mike has posted previously about the motivations for blogging about any subject, let alone child abuse, and within the last 10 days the UK Sunday newspaper The Observer published a similar, more recently updated article on the subject with a rather amusing photograph. The irony was, had you decided to look in the online section…
