From body image to behavior to dreams for the future, children look towards the people they see every day to set standards for them to follow. Mostly the people kids see every day --and look to for g..

This year, 2009, has started with multiple acts of youth violence. In February of 2009, 14 year old Brandon McInery killed Lawrence King at the Oxnard school. In the same month, police charged 11 ye..

The headlines read: Eight Year-Old Kills Father and a Boarder. Was this tragedy preventable? If it is proven that the known causes of youth violence were there, it was entirely preventable. This is wo..

Violence in the family is a major source of teen female violence. The future well-being of a society is directly linked to its ability to care for and educate its young. Families that cannot successfu..

Lost in the headlines about the presidential election and the stock market meltdown is the fact that October is the month dedicated to controlling domestic violence. The irony is that the financial sh..

Why?Many people ask "Why" in the aftermath of any tragedy. An appropriate question...but, unfortunately, there are no very good answers.There are, however, are few considerations for all of us to exam..

Games are a popular past time for many teens and adults. It's sometimes confusing to figure out just what each game offers and the risks of playing each game. With today's world focused on reducing vi..

In The Times recently, the front page story was 'Computer Games to get health warnings'.Well, in a way they are right, and it seems illogical that so many years after their introduction, no real paren..

Violence against women and children comes in different forms and without help, the victims become lost in unhealthy cycles that affect everybody. All violence against women and children has a negative..

Emotional or physical abuse is an all too frequent occurrence for many children and women. Surveys indicate that as many as a fifth of all women are verbally abused at some time during their marriage,..

Domestic abuse is all too common in the world. In almost 20 percent of all marriages in the United States, couples push, shove, punch, pull, hit, or otherwise assault each other.Emotional abuse,threat..

Jennifer consulted with me regarding her 18-year marriage. "I just don't know what to do. I believe in marriage, and I have tried to believe in my marriage. But Jake's drinking has been getting worse ..

One of the most interesting stories I have heard in the last year has been about a therapist who brings about change in the lives of hardened men in a prison wing by connecting himself with the Divine..

32 precious lives are ended on a college campus by a shooter who seems to have "chosen" his victims at random. A 15 year old boy dies after being stabbed at a late night house party in the inner city...

Every single day a number of health care professionals have to encounter an incident of an abused victim turning to them to request help. But even of you are not a trained professional you should be f..

In 2006 the news contained 22 incidents of school violence and reports show that violence in some major US cities was higher last year than it has been in decades. Violence among females and pre-teens..

Why do women, especially in America, put up with the outrage of physical, sexual, and verbal abuse? One main reason is absolute obedience to the messages of childhood, when they were first maltreated..