"Police have shut down one of the largest child sex exploitation rings seen in Australia that was dealing in "abhorrent and disgusting" images, officials have said. Twenty-one people aged between 22 and 76 from around the country were arrested and...
"Behind the red brick, inside the windows, and past the big steel doors, is a secret home in St. Louis. "It's a place where a world of hurt comes walking through the door, every time an officer brings a rescued young woman or girl. "This home is...
"Texas lawmakers over the past decade have approved some of the toughest measures in the nation to capture and punish human traffickers, the vendors in a modern-day slave trade of people forced into prostitution or labor. This legislative session,...
"Kimberly Ritter discovered that some US hotels harbor a horrifying secret – child sex trafficking. Now she and her employer are urging the hospitality industry to confront the problem...."...
"Teens who were depressed as children are far more likely than their peers to be obese, smoke cigarettes and lead sedentary lives, even if they no longer suffer from depression...."...
"Students who date in middle school have significantly worse study skills, are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use than their single classmates, according to new research from the...
"Professor of Psychology Matthew Nock is the author of a new paper, co-authored with other Harvard faculty, which examines suicidal thoughts and behaviors among adolescents. In a recent conversation with the Gazette, Nock discussed his research, and...
"In general, teens who perpetrate violence are capable of change,” says Emily Rothman, a professor at Boston University School of Public Health and an expert on intimate-partner violence perpetration...." " We need to recognize that teen dating...
"Colm O’Gorman, the founder of the One in Four organisation that supports clerical sex abuse victims in Ireland, said the emergence of Pope Francis on the balcony in St Peter’s Square had evoked “a spark of hope” in him...."...
"The suicide deaths last year of two teenage boys from Johnston public schools has prompted the Iowa Senate to approve a bill requiring statewide training on suicide prevention for Iowa school personnel. "Senate File 337, which passed Wednesday on a...
"The Senate has voted unanimously to expand Oklahoma's Child Abuse Response Team (CART) program.... "The problem is, Oklahoma has thousands of confirmed child abuse cases every year, but the OSBI only has two CART investigators for the entire state,"...
"The Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) is committed to facilitating healing and recovery and promoting the social and emotional well being of children who have experienced maltreatment, exposure to violence and/ or trauma. The...
"Lorelei Vargas, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at ANDRUS, has been awarded a New Voices Civic Engagement Fellowship from the Alliance for Children and Families, a national human services membership association.... "Vargas’ year-long...
"Bristol researchers are trying to establish the best way of supporting young victims of sex abuse. "The study being carried out by experts at Bristol and Durham universities will include one of the largest randomised trials of its type in...
"This University of Toronto study, published online this month in the journal Public Health, shows that men who experienced parental divorce before they turned 18 had 48-per-cent higher odds of ever smoking 100 or more cigarettes than men whose...