Domestic violence is an issue that is too often swept under the rug. When it is brought to light, the conversation often centres around physical violence, even though domestic abuse can manifest in ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Emotional abuse isn't as easy to spot as physical forms of abuse, which may complicate arguments as the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs continues. Among several other accusations of physical and sexual ...

Losing your cool once in a while is normal. Human, even. That's a whole lot different from leaving someone emotionally ...

SALEM, Ore. — Days before her 5-year-old son's school sent her a letter about a restraint they had used on him, Glenda Scherer says she suspected something had happened. "He always loved going to ...

In a prior article, we explored the differences between state laws punishing certain teens for engaging in sexual behavior and exempting other teens from punishment based on the closeness in age ...

In an effort to flag more incidents of suspected mistreatment, Pennsylvania lawmakers are getting ready to move forward with proposals to expand the state’s definition of child abuse. The changes come ...

A statewide task force created to reform Colorado’s mandatory reporting laws cannot do so without first asking lawmakers to change the state’s definition of criminal child abuse and neglect, members ...

Tuesday morning, people from Marathon County and other child advocates plan to urge legislators to better define what cases ...