Recognizing Domestic Violence

What is Domestic Violence? According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, domestic violence is “the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another.” If you or someone that you know has found themselves in […]
How Domestic Violence Effects Children

What is domestic violence? According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, domestic violence is “the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another.” This can look different in every situation from physical, sexual, psychological […]
Child sexual abuse – horrors of the least reported child maltreatment
Child sexual abuse is any touching or non-touching sexual activity between a child and an adult. It’s the least reported type of abuse; victims suffer from fear, guilt, denial, withdrawal, post traumatic stress, “sleeper effect” and other mechanisms of coping with molestation, so diagnosing and proving child sexual abuse is often complex and difficult. What is […]
Understanding emotional child abuse – risks, signs, prevention
Emotional child abuse (or psychological abuse) is a wide range of parents’ or caregivers’ behaviors that systematically maltreat children’s psyche and seriously impair their normal psychological and emotional development. This type of child maltreatment might be the cruelest of them all in terms of persistency and severity of consequences. Emotional child abuse is difficult to prove, […]