The goal of reporting a sexual offense is generally to get help and justice for the victim, and to prevent offenders from harming others. However, the current criminal...


Protecting children by upholding the rights and freedoms of all
Protecting children by upholding the rights and freedoms of all
The goal of reporting a sexual offense is generally to get help and justice for the victim, and to prevent offenders from harming others. However, the current criminal...
Twenty years ago, the Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Study revolutionized our understanding of trauma’s impact on survivors of abuse. Today, more...
BDSM, or Bondage, Discipline, Dominance, Submission, Sadism, and Masochism, is not usually associated with healing. Instead, BDSM in popular culture is usually portrayed...
If you even think about child marriage, perhaps you think this kind of child abuse only happens in developing countries. Perhaps you think that here in the United States...
Child abuse, whether intentional or through ignorant behaviors by parents, other adults, and caregivers, are a leading cause of emotional and physical harm to children and...
As an infantile incest sexual abuse survivor with a cacophony of lasting trauma-conditions to navigate in the long-term, I got to a point of understanding that left me...
The first part of this two-part article explained how sexually exploited boys can find it more difficult to disclose their abuse if they hold to rigidly defined notions of...
The sexual exploitation of children has received significant attention over recent years with much being written about the reasons sexually exploited children don’t...
When you associate shame and guilt with sex, you are facilitating sexual abuse.
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came of age when sexual activity...