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Abolishing the Child Welfare System Would Harm Victims of Child Abuse

Abolishing the Child Welfare System Would Harm Victims of Child Abuse

Our nation’s child welfare system exists to fulfill society’s collective commitment to protecting children when they become victims of serious abuse. Unfortunately, this system is deeply flawed, and youth involved in child welfare services are often retraumatized, revictimized, or otherwise poorly...

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Healing Takes Time: Delores’ Story

Healing Takes Time: Delores’ Story

Delores stands next to a pink rosebush planted by counseling center staff to honor her courage and bravery. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you                                                                                            ~ Maya Angelou As a trauma...

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The “Parental Alienation” Defense Endangers Children

The “Parental Alienation” Defense Endangers Children

The latest issue of The Pennsylvania Lawyer magazine features an article by attorney Ashish Joshi, who is a proponent of the so-called “parental alienation defense.”  The article includes extensive discussion on the purported merits of parental alienation theory in our family court system. The...

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Watch This Movie about Richard Sipe

Watch This Movie about Richard Sipe

I just saw the movie Sipe: Sex, Lies, and the Priesthood. It is about Richard Sipe, an expert on the Catholic clergy’s abuse of children. Sipe was a psychologist and a former priest, who used his expertise to help children and to try to hold the church accountable for its misconduct. This moving...

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Learning from Roy Mouton’s Truthful Novel, In God’s House

Learning from Roy Mouton’s Truthful Novel, In God’s House

“I had sex with boys almost every day I was a priest (161).” Those words described the actions of the priest, Father Francis Dubois, that the fictional lawyer, Renon Chattelrault, was asked to defend in this case from the early 1980s. At the same time, a “ten-year-old child victim was bringing a...

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