A number of factors can dissuade or prevent survivors from reporting domestic violence, so it’s difficult to understand just how common it is. Domestic violence is the broad term for behavior designed ...

What is child sexual abuse? Child sexual abuse is any interaction between a child and an adult (or another child) in which the child is used for the sexual satisfaction of the perpetrator or an ...

SAN ANTONIO – The cost of health care, homelessness and child abuse are the top concerns for Bexar County voters, according to a Bexar Facts-KSAT-San Antonio Report poll released this week. The poll, ...

Kylie Spies is a research and policy social worker at Prevent Child Abuse Iowa. In April, the Iowa Department of Human Services released child abuse statistics for 2021. The increase in cases from ...

Q. My father, age 80, was diagnosed with dementia in 2016 and eloped with his wife in 2020. It was out of character for him to marry without informing his children, so early on we saw some red flags.

Sibling sexual abuse is something I think about daily. Sometimes I’m feeling the aftereffects of my brother sexually abusing me. Sometimes I’m focused on the serious and creative work of how to ...

Although scammers will go after anyone, they often target elderly victims with fixed incomes. Classified as elder fraud, this is a rapidly growing crime. Reported losses more than doubled from 2023 to ...