Parents’ guide – what to do and how to deal with runaway kids

My child is threatening to run away from home, what do I do? Is my child serious, or is he/she just testing my reactions? How do I deal with runaway kids?  Each year, more than 1.5 million kids run away from home. Those runaway kids are at serious risk; dangers of a homeless life (such as […]

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, […]

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