Child abuse is a subject that has received a great deal of public interest and media attention in recent years. And in some ways that’s a really good thing. Instances of child abuse are rising, and the number of children in foster care needing stable homes is staggering. So it’s definitely a subject that needs…
Category: Child Abuse
Take a look at anyone’s dating profile online and chances are you’ll find that most people aren’t as honest about themselves as they’d like you to believe. Whether it’s make up, lighting and angles used to make them look 20 years younger (and 20 Lbs lighter), or simple a profile pic from a couple of…
Child sexual abuse, also called molestation, is one of the hardest accusations to defend against. Because it’s an emotional subject, and people are conditioned to believe the word of the victim and the cops providing testimony during the trial, it can be extremely difficult to get a fair trial. Anyone who is falsely accused is…
A child’s death is a tragedy. Every child’s life lost is a devastating blow to their loved ones and their community. But somehow, a child who dies as a result of child abuse almost seems worse. The ripples of pain are felt even by people living far away. People who never knew the family, and…
There are many reasons people are excited about the legalization of marijuana. Few minor cases clogging up the courts, less people behind bars for things that should never have been crimes in the first place, cops having more time to address real issues that make society unsafe… the list goes on. But the flip side…
One of the biggest scandals involved in the Larry Nassar case was the fact that so many people knew what was happening – and no one did anything about it. No one listened to the reports. No one reached out to the authorities to tell them what had been alleged. No one confronted Nassar, or…
There has been a great deal of upheaval in the Catholic church in recent decades. The number of priests accused of sexually abusing and molesting children is staggering, and it appears to be continuing to rise. It’s become so bad, in fact, that the pope himself has decided to tackle the issue head on. In…
The issue of ‘conversion therapy’ (a form of therapy, usually faith-based, that aims to convert gay youth into straight people) has been controversial from the start. And this certainly isn’t the first time a legislator in Michigan has tried to introduce laws making conversion therapy illegal. So when State Senator Mallory McMorrow and State Representative…
Every time a child dies of neglect, the entire state undergoes a foster panic. Every time a member of the clergy is accused of child sexual assault, the entire church comes under attack. And every time a ‘homeschooled’ child is discovered to be the victim of abuse, the entire homeschooling community gets vilified. We get…
Right now in Michigan, a child as young as 13 can be prosecuted as an adult, depending on the seriousness of the crime. Crimes like Arson, Armed Robbery, and First Degree Murder sometimes end with minors behind bars for decades, if not life. But what makes this additionally challenging, is the fact that minors who…