Cruel words can leave a mark on a child –– and may have as much of an impact as physical abuse, new research has found. People who experienced physical abuse as a child were at a 50% increased risk ...

Connor was himself the victim of severe physical and sexual abuse in early childhood. While most victims of child sexual abuse do not go on to engage in abusive behavior, it’s also true that ...

Across the United States, state laws designate licensed mental health professionals (MHPs) as mandated reporters when they have reasonable suspicion of child abuse or neglect (Ettinger, 2022). This ...

Florida Gators head baseball coach Kevin O’Sullivan was identified in October by a state child-welfare investigator as the subject of verbal abuse allegations made by one of his teenage children, ...

In “The Unheard”, a novel written by the husband and wife authors, Nicci Gerrard and Sean French in 2021, under the pseudonym Nicci French, without spoiling the novel, the novel chronicles the story ...

Pakistan has emerged as one of the most radical and alarming cases among the Muslim countries in terms of discrimination against non-Muslim children, particularly Hindus and Christians, a report cited ...