A new psychological investigation suggests that emotional abuse in childhood serves as the primary driver for a debilitating ...

In our culture, we think of abuse as only being physical. However, an equally damaging form of abuse is emotional abuse, which takes away the self-esteem and the self-value of a child. The silent ...

Emotional abuse is a quiet, frequently unrecognized and therefore unnamed, form of abuse that can, nevertheless, have devastating consequences for the abused. Further, emotional abuse can lead to and ...

It comes after a joint investigation conducted by the Washington County Department of Children Protective Services and the ...

On Sunday, a 17-year-old escaped from a home where she and 12 siblings had been held captive by their parents in Perris, Calif. Both parents were arrested for torture and child endangerment. At a ...

Not all children with narcissistic parental figures grow up the same. Here’s why the roles assigned to them matter. All children have basic emotional needs that their parents are meant to fulfill.

Pupils at the prestigious Fettes College were "wholly failed" by the school where abuse flourished over four decades, the ...

Delhi’s Women and Child Development Secretary Rashmi Singh said violence against girls must be understood beyond physical ...

Childhood is where kids are meant to throw fits over what to wear each morning, and one of their biggest daily decisions is what to have for breakfast. In some not-so-ideal situations, life throws ...

NEW ORLEANS — Some who spoke in federal court on Tuesday about being victimized in the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans’s enduring child molestation saga had forgiven. Others had not. None ...