Reading – They’re Invisible In China: Portraits Of The Mentally Ill
This is profoundly sad, and somewhat shocking, because there simply are no resources available to treat mental illness.
This is profoundly sad, and somewhat shocking, because there simply are no resources available to treat mental illness.
That’s our blind spot. We’re so busy looking for creepy, anti-social, stereotypes that we miss the charming abusers right in our midst, and we miss all the signs and hints that our kids might be dropping because we just didn’t stop to consider that adult to be dangerous. We just assumed they were safe, and our kids would somehow know better anyway.
Clearly, that strategy isn’t working.
April 2013 has been rebranded to National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month rather than having a general child abuse focus. It’s an interesting choice but since calls from adult survivors to RAINN’s helpline have risen by 200% following Penn State and other collegiate abuse scandals of last year, the new focus is understandable. RAINN…
This is good news, We have a massive shortage in terms of resources available to those who need them. If we can find something like apps that can assist those who are waiting for treatment, or as a supplement to treatment, all the better. This study seems to show that they might just be effective…
Lots of good information in this article, about how they weren’t who you would suspect, they worked to gain the trust of a child by minimizing the other adults in their lives, especially their parents, and used technology to communicate because parents weren’t savvy enough to keep track of how their kids used technology. I’m…
“Interested parties” supplied us with three print copies of the story about Egyptian women being blamed for their own sexual assuaults from the International Herald Tribune, at the start of June, that report is here. Then the Daily Mail updated that story following the further protests where the Egyptian Army became involved once more, to…
Children from all backgrounds do better when they have involved parents, this study shows that truth among poor families, but I have no doubt you’d find the same truth everywhere. And abusers have a much harder time isolating kids with involved parents too. “The good news is that parents who struggle financially are still finding…
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