It’s tax time again! And this year, with tax season comes an opportunity to do some good in your community! At least, for the residents of Delta County, who have the option to check the box on Form 4642 on their Michigan 2017 state income tax returns. Why would they do that, you wonder? Because…
Category: Child Abuse
Welcome back and thanks for joining us for the final installment in our four-part series on hostile aggressive parenting If you’re just joining us now, we recommend you take a few minutes to get caught up on exactly what this is, and why experts consider it to be a form of child abuse. If you’ve…
Welcome back, and thanks for joining us for the third installment in this discussion on hostile aggressive parenting. We’ve talked about what exactly hostile aggressive parenting is, how it differs from parental alienation (but can lead to that!) and why it’s considered to be child abuse. Moving on we’re going to wrap up this series…
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. In the previous article we introduced the topic of hostile aggressive parenting, and talked about why it counts as a type of child abuse. Although awareness of Parental Alienation and Hostile Aggressive Parenting is increasing, the fact is that many people still don’t realize that they even…
Hostile Aggressive parenting may not be the most well known term, but many parents are intimately familiar with it’s toxic results! So what does it mean, and why does it count as a form of child abuse? We’ve had many parents ask us about this in recent months, and we think it’s time to unpack…
Larry Nassar’s sentencing hearing is now in it’s sixth day, and by the end of yesterday over 100 victims had stepped up to provide victim impact statements. The Michigan Attorney General’s Office says that it expects 120 women and girls to give victim impact statements at the weeks-long hearing, before Nassar is officially sentenced. Judge…
Michigan’s FGM case has center stage in the national human rights spotlight. The story of multiple Michigan doctors, from the little known Dawoodi Bohra sect, performing genital mutilation on young girls for religious purposes has caused an uproar. In response, legislation has changed both in Michigan and on a federal level, and several other states…
Just last week we shared the story of 24-year-old Candice Renea Diaz and her boyfriend, 28-year old Brad Edward Fields. Both were allegedly involved in the abuse and eventual death of Diaz’s 4-year-old daughter, Gabby, and had fled the state after charges were filed. They were later found and arrested in Georgia, where they have…
If you have access to the internet or television in the last few days, you’ve probably heard about this story. A young mother and her boyfriend are wanted by the police for the alleged abuse and murder of the woman’s 4-year-old daughter. The story is heartbreaking, but so far we only have one side of…
When Andy Williams wrote about Christmas in his famous carol, he said there’d be “there’ll be parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting, and caroling out in the snow!” What he didn’t mention however, in that list of all things wonderful, was the seasonal rise in domestic abuse that cops see every year at Christmas time….