Abuse

Emotional Abuse: Are you "Never good enough?"
Are you anxious and worried about what will happen when you and your significant other are together? Apart? Are you the subject of name-calling? Are you the subject of yelling?

Gift From Within: Understanding the victims of Spousal
Abuse And those who have no personal experience as a victim of spousal abuse, those who read to understand and to help, might begin by recalling a time of intimidation by a larger person, perhaps in childhood, when you dared not fight, when you felt small and hurt and humiliated.

Our Endangered Species: A Hard Look At How We Treat Children And this is a failure so fundamental, so critical, that our long-term survival is at stake. Ultimately, it poses a greater threat than war, poverty, hunger, crime, racism and tribalism—even of the genocidal variety—combined

Men and Abuse: The Other Side
Police officers snicker at the reports and others still can’t understand how it could take place…it is abuse, men abusing men or women abusing men, men can be victims too.


Control over your life
Abuse is all about control, but it doesn't have to be about the abusers control, it can be about yours.

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Disabilities in the family

Disabilites within the Family Sullivan says he receives hundreds of letters from parents who refer to themselves as "the parent of..." instead of by their names. "They see themselves as the parent of a child with a disability, rather than a whole human being.

How Learning Disabilities Affect Family Dynamics Life in the family of a child with LD is complex and challenging, involving practical and emotional issues. There are medical and educational decisions, financial pressures, and time constraints — all likely to represent additional responsibilities for parents.

Warning signs in preschool through Elementry School Something's not quite right about Johnny. He seems bright enough, but often his performance or behavior falls short of expectations. He can do some things very well, but in other ways is behind his peers. Is he simply lazy? Does he just need to try harder?

Marriage under Pressure Raising a child who has a learning disability (LD) requires a lot of time and energy from parents. At times, the whole family may be caught up in the whirlwind of adjusting to life with LD. In this situation, it's easy to neglect your marriage. Remember it's essential to nurture your relationship during such challenging times.

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Raising children with Disabilities

The Unexpected Gift Grief is one of the most common reactions parents have when they first find out their child has a disability. Before having a child with a disability, parents may have had dreams about how their child might be or how they imagined they’d be as a parent.

Children with Disabilities: Understanding Sibling Issues
In any family, each sibling, and each relationship that siblings have, is unique, important, and special. Brothers and sisters influence each other and play important roles in each other's lives. Indeed, sibling relationships make up a child's first social network and are the basis for his or her interactions with people outside the family

Toilet Training Children with Deafblindness: Issues and Strategies Toilet training approaches for children with disabilities often differ drastically from those used with nondisabled children

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Family Time and Traditions

Transferring Traditions
Passing down family traditions to your children "Will Dad read the Christmas story on Christmas Eve again this year?" "I don’t have to do chores on my birthday, right?" "Are we going to watch the fireworks on the 4th of July?" A hidden agenda lurks behind my children’s questions: Are we going to keep our traditions?

Spending Quality Time With Your Teen With our ever increasing busy schedules, it is easy to lose focus on spending quality time with our teenagers. It is important to remember that even though our children are nearing adulthood, they still require parental involvement.

Making the most of family time Time spent with your family is always precious, even more so if you have little of it. If there are two working parents in your household, it's important to make the most of the time you have together with your children.

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Raising Religious Children

Can Teenagers be parented with Christian Principles?
Applying Christian principles is never too late, unfortunately, if a parent has not laid a solid Christian foundation within the home, the effect of the principles applied later on in life may take some time to bear fruit.

How does a single Parent set up a Christian Household?
Many a time single parent households are viewed as a problem. Society seemingly blames them for everything that is wrong, churches see them as chronically absent, and their extended families may also not be too kind.

It’s all about relationships! As Christian a parent, your heart’s desire is to raise Christian children. It's hard to imagine a son or daughter growing up without Jesus and yet it happens all too often. There are no magic pills to cure this parental concern. But these tips may help.

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Families with Different Religions


Interfaith Marriage Guidelines This guide has been written mainly for people from a Christian background (whether they belong to a Church or not) who are thinking about marriage to someone of a different religion, as well as those who are already married or in long-term relationships.

Ten Tips to Avoiding Conflict in an Interfaith Marriage Who said marriage was easy? It's not. Never was, never will be. The couples who are successful are the ones who know they have to work at it. When you're in an interfaith marriage, avoiding conflict may require even more effort.

Caught Between Two Faiths Religious leaders of both faiths agree that this is an untenable situation, but the boy remains at the center of a bitter tug of war between his divorced parents, a Catholic mother and Jewish father. And nothing is being done to stop it, though the situation is coming to a head as he approaches his 13th birthday.

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Raising Teenagers

6 Ways to Communicate Clearly with Your Teen Your ability to communicate effectively with your teen is one of the most precious skills you can develop to achieve this goal


From Teenage Thorn to Adult Rose A teenage child is like a rose bush – one of God’s wonderful creations engulfed by beauty, yet protruding with an armor of defensive thorns.

The Secret to Raising Sexually Pure Kids When you talk with your children about sexual purity, their number-one question is likely to be, "Did you wait?"

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Schooling

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Newborn Tips

Newborn? Expect The Unexpected! No matter how carefully you planned, your newborn will have some surprises for you. Few babies are exact matches with the statistical norms.

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Single Home Families

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Eye Candy -- It Looks Good, but It's Adultery

A critical issue that I struggled with in my spiritual battle regarding my addiction, even after I became a Christian, was rationalizing my behavior. I actually had the audacity to try and convince my wife that viewing porn on the internet was not a sin. Read More