This seems like an interesting thing that Australian courts are doing: “The program involves pre-recording children’s evidence and appointing trained “witness intermediaries” who help children to understand questions and get their answers across effectively. Since March last year more than 700 children have been through the NSW pilot program, which has 44 trained witness intermediaries….
Sadly, this did not surprise me. “Around one in five adults aged 16 to 59 (an estimated 6.2 million people) had experienced some form of abuse as a child, according to the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) for the year ending March 2016. But the impact of what is often a hidden crime…
There are no easy answers, but hopefully, this guide can help you spot child abuse, such as the shaken baby syndrome, or spot children that have been neglected, provide information about prevention programs, and learn the steps to report the abuse to child welfare services. They are right, there are no easy answers, and I suspect there will…
Over on the No Contact Survivor site, is a review of this book on overcoming ritual abuse. I’m personally not as familiar with ritual abuse as I probably should be, but as mentioned in the review, it’s not something that you’re going to find a lot of accurate information about, unfortunately. On the other hand,…
The term “abuse-proofing” gives me pause, because I don’t think you can ever guarantee that something you do will absolutely protect them, but there are some good tips and thoughts in this article, like this: Early in my graduate training, I stumbled over some great information and advice in my studies on all aspects of…
For many of us, this is an ongoing issue, but it seems to have only gotten worse. For most of the issues that are reported on there is very little, if anything, that you can do to affect them. So, it is probably a good idea to start evaluating the real value knowing about…
