The dangers of hosting a party for your children where alcohol is freely available, is defnitely a form of abuse.

Sibling abuse can be defined as one child abusing another child in the same family or siblings abusing together.

Female abusers are mothers, aunts, girlfriends, grandmothers, wives, sisters, colleagues of the female gender that abuse others.

What is incest? Incest can be defined as improper physical contact between blood relatives.

Denial of abuse by family and friends never ceases to amaze me. A child is being abused within the family and everyone knows it is happening, yet everyone is at the same time astounded that the child is behaving in certain ways.

Mother's Day and Father's Day is celebrated the world over annually. What happens when your mother or father was your abuser and not all the loving things the media proclaims for weeks before? How do you handle these days then? Below are a few ideas from people in support groups which may help you.

I have always been very concerned about the legal procedures involving the victim that follow once abuse has been reported and court proceedings eventually commence and why various legal experts and therapists feel it is more important to attempt a conviction than offering the victim therapy.

Abuse. So much has been written on various forms of abuse. It has been discussed by numerous experts; prevention and treatment programmes have been set up; survivors have braved secondary trauma by following through in ineffective legal sytems the world over. Why is abuse on the increase then?

Book review of Breaking the Chains of Abuse by Sue Atkinson

In this article I mean to share a few ways victims may react to the abuse they suffered as a child.