child abuse

  • How to Deal With Your Childhood Trauma As an Adult

    How to Deal With Your Childhood Trauma As an Adult

    Rachel Fairbank

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    Recovering from trauma is hard no matter when it happens. However, if adversity happens during childhood, it can be especially hard to overcome. Unlike adults, children have very little control over their environment. If a child is living in an abusive home, their ability to remove themselves from that environment is extremely limited, whereas an…

  • When to Call CPS on Another Parent – and When Not To

    When to Call CPS on Another Parent – and When Not To

    Meghan Moravcik Walbert

    Making the decision to call Child Protective Services on another parent is not a decision most of us would ever arrive at lightly. We may be afraid of retaliation — or we may be fearful that we’re wrong and about to make someone’s life unnecessarily scary or stressful. But there are times when it is…