“Children who engage in deviant acts must receive professional intervention,...
Sad teenager is scared and abused. My stomach continues to churn as I read report after report about reality star Josh Duggar’s alleged admission of child molestation. Even more disappointing are the...
View Article“Orange Friday” in Aotearoa/ NZ… raising awareness of domestic violence. By...
Orange Friday is a day to raise awareness and much needed funds to help victims of domestic abuse become safe and stay safe. Domestic abuse is not an easy subject, especially because our statistics...
View ArticleAustralian mum raises over $100,000 to build safe-house for abused girls, by...
Australian blogger Constance Hall has harnessed the power of her loyal social media following to raise funds for a charity that supports sexually abused Kenyan girls. The response has been...
View ArticleIn Loving Memory of Nia Glassie and so many others… a Song and an Article for...
As we move into April, international Child Abuse Prevention Month, this article challenges us to dare NOT to turn a blind eye and to protect all our children, everywhere. The Forever Years By Kirsteen...
View Article“The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog”, by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz. A...
I found “The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog” a fascinating read and would recommend it to anyone who is interested in child psychology or who works with traumatised children… or even if you just have a...
View ArticleDunedin Study Findings: The Importance of Identifying Personality Types at a...
Continuing our series of articles on findings discovered by the “Dunedin Longitudinal Study”… “The Dunedin Study“ identifies five major personality types. These can be recognised in children as young...
View ArticleThe Road Near Rio’s Olympic Village Where 9-year-old Girls are being Sold for...
Around a bend on one of Brazil’s longest highways, only a 50-minute drive from Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic village, girls as young as nine are selling their bodies to truck drivers for money. Just a few...
View ArticleAcknowledging Past Institutional Child Sexual Abuse In Aotearoa/ New Zealand...
My name is Grant West I am a survivor of child sexual abuse in New Zealand. My abuse was by many different people in government-run institutions. I am now travelling New Zealand collecting signatures...
View ArticleIt’s another person’s Child, be a Busybody! By A.LLY, written for Fei Yue...
As parents, how often do we think of raising children other than our own? And in the context of Singapore, there is an innate fear of being labelled as “Kay Poh” (busybody) even though the intention...
View Article“Do what it takes for as long as it takes to restore a broken life”:...
Hagar International works with women, children and young men in Cambodia, Vietnam and Afghanistan who have been victims of human rights abuses including trafficking , slavery, torture and sexual...
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