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A deadly toll: Hillsborough leads the state as number of child drownings spikes
Hillsborough County officials are working to boost prevention efforts after
What to Know about Child Abuse
Although it's a mistake to become overprotective and make your child fearful, it is important to recognize the actual risks and familiarize yourself with the signs of abuse.
Teach Your Daughter How to Deal With Bullies
If your child is being bullied, she'll need some help learning how to stand up for herself and when to get help.
Why Can’t We Stop Child Abuse?
Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly two hundred years. Why have they failed?
How Child Abuse Primes the Brain for Future Mental Illness
A brain scan study pinpoints the changes associated with child abuse that may raise people's risk of depression, PTSD and addictions later in life.
Why It's Dangerous To Claim Domestic Violence 'Spikes' Over The Holidays
The persistence of the myth betrays a lack of understanding about how abuse works.
Prevention of Child Abuse
Ask the Doctor: Why is the Emergency Department referred to as a safe haven?
Prevent Child Abuse America
With Pinwheels for Prevention, the pinwheel has come to serve as the physical embodiment and reminder of the great childhoods we want for all children.
Give Your Child the Tools to Recognize Sexual Abuse
Talk to kids about their bodies and empower them to speak out.
What is Child Trauma?
What is Child Trauma?<br>When a child feels intensely threatened by an event he or she is involved in or witnesses, we call that event a trauma. There is a range of traumatic events or trauma types to which children and adolescents can be exposed.
Protecting Your Child From Abuse And Neglect
While there is no way to know the exact risk a child faces, there are some factors for abuse and neglect risk we should be aware of:
Why is child abuse not always reported?
From sexual abuse to physical or emotional abuse as well as maltreatment and neglect, child abuse can have various forms. It occurs when a parent or a caregiver causes injury or death to a child ...
Three Things Parents Should Tell Their Children
Elizabeth Smart, a former child abductee turned activist, gives her top three tips on what every parent should tell their children in order to protect them f...
What it's like being a front-line child protection worker
Frontline child protection practitioners want their voices heard and hope to change public perception regarding their role.
Live-saving water skills children can learn before they walk
Nearly 4,000 children drown annually in rivers, lakes and pools nationwide.
The Water Tap: How do heatwaves affect our water supply?
When temperatures spike in the desert, everyone needs more water and humans must compete with plants and even the air to get it.
Adverse childhood experiences: How changing a child's environment can help
Without treatment of the harms caused by ACEs health problems, physical and mental, unhealthy behaviors such as over-eating and substance abuse and other societal problems develop.
Why victims of childhood adversity have a harder time achieving their goals
Childhood trauma can affect a child's brain in dramatic ways for the rest of their lives.
5 Tips For Managing A Disrespectful Child
At some point, every parent has to deal with disrespectful behaviour from his or her child. Whether it’s something as minor as ignoring your requests or as upsetting as a string of curses and insults, your child will sometimes express himself in unproductive ways.
What if Your Child Crosses the Line?
Beneath aggression, you will almost always find fear.
Record Rain Is Drowning Fields in the Midwest — Is It Climate Change?
The Midwest is plagued by floods and soils too wet to plant. Is this climate change? Researchers say it's too soon to tell, but we should still prepare.
