childhood Archive
The House Ways and Means Committee has produced a bill to provide a five-year reauthorization for Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV), a maltreatment prevention program popular with both parties. MIECHV was initially created as part of the …
There were many lies in my childhood. My abusers told all sorts of stories for why it was my fault I was treated so poorly and how I would never be able escape. I learned horrible things about myself and …
According to a leading group of children’s advocates, it’s not enough to just study the impact of childhood trauma and how we can lessen its toll on children and adults later in life. Armed with new data, researchers from Center for the Study …
When many people think of museums, they think of widely recognized museums like the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) or the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), both located in New York City, or perhaps a global attraction like the …
I’ve learned over time that in adoption circles some people describe the sometimes unusual and extreme behaviors seen in orphaned and abused children as “attachment disorder” while others label it “RAD” (Reactive Attachment Disorder.) What’s the difference and who’s right? …
The results of a new study, discussed in this New York Times Article, suggest that bullying in childhood has lasting effects into adulthood. “The study followed 1,420 subjects from Western North Carolina who were assessed four to six times between …
I can picture the bookshelf in the middle school library to this day; the broken green spine staring at me. The title, “The Hobbit”. It was one of those moments, looking back I was positive that the course of my …
