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Study Shows That Limiting Your Life to Only “Positive” Friends May Be Hurting You
As it turns out, tuning out people who might need some compassion is simply an act of isolation, and isolation is almost never good for our own mental health. By cutting out the people who don’t always offer up those positive vibes, we wind up disconnected and lonely. Which, of course, we can’t share with the people left around us, because we are all living in the nothing negative bubble, so you are now living a very isolated life, which leads to much MORE anxiety, stress, and depression.
Remaining English 2009 Nursery and Online CSA Offenders Jailed
The rest of the paedophiles associated with the first English Nursery child abuse cluster from late 2009 were formally sentenced today. Only one of the female offenders, Tracey Dawber succeeded with the “Man Made Me Do It” excuse and received four years, Tracy Lyons received seven and Colin Blanchard, lionised by the media and one…
Review: Protecting Our Children (2012, UK)
The BBC’s previous child protection documentary series focused on the police trying to detect and apprehend child abusers. This time, the programme makers follow a team of social workers and the general modern child protection structure starting in the home. Episode one showed us selected events over nearly a year in their attempt to help…
Thoughts After Watching “Shiny Happy People” – The Duggars Documentary
As shocking and dark as the details of the Duggar family and their relgious beliefs may be to many of us, it shouldn’t surprise us at all that they were so many people with a vested interest in the show, the religious organization, and the family were encouraged and even forced to gloss over the reality of what happened. If you’re shocked that anyone would go to such lengths to hide child abuse and ignore victims, you simply haven’t been paying attention. It goes on everywhere, and I hope the more cases like this one that we can bring to light, the more we’ll start to understand how horrible this is.
