Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

There are many types of abuse; physical, mental, emotional, financial, and sexual. The truth about my life is that I have been victimized by all of these, and survived. The emotional abuse started ...

Trauma, Violence & Abuse, Vol. 12, No. 3 (July 2011), pp. 135-150 (16 pages) For women, any one type of abuse rarely occurs in isolation of other types, and a single abusive experience is often the ...

SALEM, Ore. — Days before her 5-year-old son's school sent her a letter about a restraint they had used on him, Glenda Scherer says she suspected something had happened. "He always loved going to ...

In an effort to flag more incidents of suspected mistreatment, Pennsylvania lawmakers are getting ready to move forward with proposals to expand the state’s definition of child abuse. The changes come ...

A statewide task force created to reform Colorado’s mandatory reporting laws cannot do so without first asking lawmakers to change the state’s definition of criminal child abuse and neglect, members ...

Maltreatment during childhood significantly increases someone's risk of experiencing depression and anxiety in adulthood. In 2015, a systematic review and meta-analysis of 199 peer-reviewed papers ...

In a prior article, we explored the differences between state laws punishing certain teens for engaging in sexual behavior and exempting other teens from punishment based on the closeness in age ...