Few systems are as critical to a community as child welfare. To an outsider, the child welfare system is also a complex labyrinth of programs that cover children’s safety, abuse and neglect, foster care and adoption as well as supporting and strengthening families. How children fare in that system will have lifelong repercussions across all parts of society.
Child Sexual Abuse
Thirty years after suffering sexual abuse at the hands of a swim coach and family friend during her a childhood, a survivor speaks out.
An estimated 100,000 children in the U.S. are victims of sex trafficking each year. A new campaign hopes to raise awareness of the exploitation and abuse of young Americans by the sex industry.
Men who survived physical or sexual abuse as children, and witnessed their mother being beaten, are nearly four times more likely to batter their female partners. This cycle could be broken by providing trauma-informed treatment for perpetrators of domestic violence.