The National Child Traumatic Stress Network recently updated their Child Sexual Abuse Fact Sheet - For Parents, Teachers, and Other Caregivers. It provides an overview of symptoms, disclosure, myths and facts, and safety education.Myths and Facts Myth: Child sexual abuse is a rare

  Introducing solid foods to your baby can be an exciting adventure.  I know that it was for me, the spit out food, screwed up faces, and the eventual gusto with which my son ate. When to introduce solids appears to be very important, according to a recent study in the journal Pediatrics that

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  Can the search for security be a cradle of infanticide?   Centuries ago, they were stretched across sacrificial altar stones. Today, they may be recovered from alleyway trash dumpsters. The slaughter of innocents can never be pretty. But the practice has persisted for thousands – perhaps millions