Three Jordanian Paralympic Athletes accused of child abuse in Antrim, Northern Ireland have been withdrawn from the games by their Paralympic association and bailed to return to the country in October for trial. The BBC has the summary here.
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George Entwhistle resigned after seven weeks in the job of BBC Director General. This decision was taken in agreement with the BBC Trust and followed tough interviews on the corporation’s own Today Radio and Breakfast Television flagship shows this morning. Despite the various enquiries happening regarding the Savile case, the fuelling the flames of the…
When the subject of child sexual abuse comes up, we get uncomfortable. In this inspirational talk by Jill Tolles, we are challenged to find the courage to have this conversation and be a hero for the 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys who are effected by this silent epidemic. Jill Tolles has…
This is really interesting. We should spend some time looking at the people who didn’t go through with it, and why. But some stories about suicide are hopeful: For every person who dies by suicide each year, another 280 people think seriously about suicide but do not kill themselves, according to data from the CDC…
There’s been a long article making the rounds of social media the past couple of days. My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward It’s an interesting look into how relationship dynamics change and the roles can reverse when one partner has a psychotic episode. Especially the struggles to regain the trust of each other after…
This article is about losing her brother to suicide, but I think this message speaks to all of the things we go through that cause people to not know what to say, depression, child abuse, sexual assault, etc. I am reminded of a text message from one of my former students, sent from hundreds of…
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