Finding Your Secret Sauce to Success These two questions may help you find your secret sauce. Please close your eyes after you read each...

Are you the victim or the hero in your mind? I think growing up in foster and residential care can make you stronger, once you get your...

How Do You Rate Your Life? The famous jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald said: “It isn't where you came from; it’s where you're going that...

Growing Past Placement to Peace Do you have a painful experience you can’t get out of your mind that is changing your good thoughts and...

Your mental health is your most valuable asset, especially if you've experienced foster care or residential living.

What is childhood schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that requires lifelong treatment. It is a chronic and...

Are you thinking about being a foster carer because you have a strong desire to share your life with a child who needs your unconditional...

In simple terms, juvenile prostitution is the performance of a sex act for money or other needs such as food, shelter, protection or...

Adult interest in children as sexual objects is as old as recorded history. It has been present, more or less, in every culture and...

Child incest has long been a subject of both social and moral concern. Societies throughout the history of humankind have condemned...

Children are more likely to be murdered, physically assaulted, sexually abused or psychologically injured in their own home than anywhere...

The history of child sexual abuse is as old as the history of humankind. Children have been used and abused for sexual purposes for...

Throughout history, there exists a close connection between the treatment of children and a society’s value system. Historically,...

Children have been abused and neglected nearly as long as man has inhabited Earth. History reveals how the Sumerians, five thousand years...

Most children “bend the truth” at some point in their development. For example, many parents have heard their very young child describe a...

ADHD is a common problem in children and has been a source of controversy for over 50 years. Some experts believe that ADHD is merely a...

Adolescence is a time of change, a transitional period in human development during which an individual gradually moves from childhood to...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a major psychiatric disorder affecting more than four million Americans. OCD is a strange and...

America’s children reflect the effects of what is happening to the American family. Never before have so many children faced so many...

Bedwetting can be a very embarrassing problem that families deal with themselves. Because bedwetting can have a physical or psychological...