Another day, another story about Mark Zuckerberg’s opt-in Truman Show social network, Facebook. This time, the site responded quickly to complaints about a page that trolled sexual assault. The Daily Mail has the story here.
“When we build a bridge of communication between our children and us they know they have our support. They know they can run to us and share the good, the difficult, and the scary things they will encounter in this life. Because we have cultivated a relationship with them that they can count on.” As…
I don’t know that this a surprise to many of us who advocate for mental health issues, but it’s always nice to have a study show that talking about mental health in a normal way, during everyday life, does have a positive effect. “College students who participate in fun, peer-directed activities that openly and honestly…
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.
Interesting post today about how a Vitamin D deficiency can cause not just physical problems, but can have a real factor in mental health as well. Since there’s no better source of Vitamin D than the sun, take some time to go get a little. It may not solve all of your mental health issues,…
The Jillings report, the first concluding document from the original investigation into systematic abuse at Welsh children’s care homes, has been rediscovered in council archives. This follows public demand for it to be fully released last week. The article is here with last Thursday’s quoted demand for the report in the story crawl at the end. The Independent on…
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