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    • 10 Ratings
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    How Many Chances Do You Get?

    APRIL 9, 2013 6:59PM

    By Jan Wilberg


    Topics: family, child welfare, child abuse, foster care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 6874 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    Did the Catholic Church castrate abuse whistleblowers?

    MAY 4, 2012 11:41AM

    By Alan Nothnagle


    Topics: netherlands, holland, child abuse, abuse scandal, catholic church

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 1693 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    The First Time I Saw Stars

    MAY 3, 2012 1:03PM

    By PatienceP


    Topics: love, fathers, daughters, family, child abuse, domestic violence

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 13785 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Fishing

    JANUARY 4, 2012 12:36PM

    By beauty1947


    Topics: open+call, family, child abuse, repressed memories, survival, triumph

    • Editor's Pick
    • 25 Ratings
    • 1633 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Abuse, Death and Freedom

    OCTOBER 6, 2011 3:20PM

    By Leonde Delmare


    Topics: domestic abuse, child abuse, death, freedom, i love my mother, family, feminism, health

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 4750 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    Mother's Secret

    SEPTEMBER 18, 2011 11:46PM

    By beauty1947


    Topics: child abuse, alcoholism, family, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 26 Ratings
    • 7282 Views
    • 38 Comments
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    After 20 Years, I Want to See My Abusive Dad for His Money

    JUNE 15, 2011 6:08AM

    By Tony Kelso


    Topics: real families, child abuse, education, family, father’s day, fatherhood, my father as a person, my tiny hypocrisy, open call, personal essay, life stories

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 2610 Views
    • 31 Comments
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    Grieving the loss of two 4-year-old boys

    SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 12:29PM

    By Maria Stuart


    Topics: child abuse, domestic violence, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 20 Ratings
    • 1299 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Family Picture

    AUGUST 17, 2010 10:33PM

    By robyn mcintyre


    Topics: personal memoir, childhood, memory, pedophile, child abuse, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 5534 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    Bishop's resignation shifts attention to Protestant abuse

    JULY 16, 2010 11:21AM

    By Alan Nothnagle


    Topics: germany, hamburg, maria jensen, child abuse, pedophilia, catholic church, walter mixa, robert zollitsch

    • Editor's Pick
    • 30 Ratings
    • 7791 Views
    • 48 Comments
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    Michelle Duggar to receive Mother of the Year award

    APRIL 21, 2010 10:31AM

    By Vyckie Garrison


    Topics: advanced training institute of america (atia), angelina jolie, ati, baby conference, baby conference: a historic family summit on the triumph of life over the culture of death, betrothal, big happy family, bill gothard, buddy system, character sketches, child abuse, child neglect, children are a blessing, christian families, christian motherhood, coercive religious groups, courtship, doug phillips, fundamentalism, homeschooling, hypocrisy, jackson duggar, jana duggar, jennifer duggar, jessa duggar, jill duggar, jim bob duggar, jinger duggar, josie duggar micro-preemie, kathryn joyce, ladies tea time, michael pearl, michelle duggar, mom of many, mother of the year award, post traumatic stress disorder, psalm 127, ptsd, quiverfull, quiverfull daughters, quiverfull: inside the christian patriarchy movement, quivering daughters, titus 2 woman, to train up a child, trusting the lord with family planning, vision forum, woman's submission, feminism, no longer quivering

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 2033 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    "My heart is pure": Bishop Mixa confronts an abusive past

    APRIL 19, 2010 1:51PM

    By Alan Nothnagle


    Topics: walter mixa, germany, bavaria, augsburg, catholic church, abuse scandal, pedophile scandal, child abuse, religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 47205 Views
    • 137 Comments
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    Are Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar "Quiverfull"?

    MARCH 8, 2010 9:25AM

    By Vyckie Garrison


    Topics: “sin in the camp”, 14 and counting, 14 kids and pregnant again, 15 and counting, 16 and counting, 16 kids and moving, 17 and counting, 18 and counting, 19 and counting, a full quiver, advanced training institute of america (atia), are jim bob & michelle duggar quiverfull?, are the duggars quiverfull?, arranged marriages, ati, ati girls retreat, ati training programs, before you meet prince charming, betrothal, biblically based abstinence, bill gothard, birth control, blessed is the man, breast feeding, broomball, buddy system, child abuse, children are a blessing, chore packs, christian dominionism, conscience, contraception, courtship, debt free, defraud, discovery channel, divorce, dolly parton, domestic warriors, ecological breast feeding, family-integrated church, father knows best, father to the fatherless, father/daughter retreat, female submission, fertility, fireproof, forsyths, gil and kelly bates, god’s control of the womb, home birth, home business, home school, homeschool, homosexuality, iblp, institute for basic life principles, jesus first, jim holt, jim sammons, johanna duggar, jordyn duggar, josh and anna duggar, joshua duggar, josie dugga, joy-anna duggar, jurisdictions, kathryn joyce, kathryn joyce the nation, like minded fellowship, male headship, managers of their homes, mary pride, maxwell family, michelle duggar, michelle duggar’s lesbian sister, midwife, midwifery, mike huckabee, militant fecundity, modesty, national enquirer, new york times, nike, no college for daughters, others second, our bodies, ourselves, outbreeding liberals, patriarchy, patriarchy: the glue that holds the culture war togethe, patrick henry college, platonic marriage, psalm 127, quiverfull: inside the christian patriarchy movement, reality tv, reconstructionism, rick and jan hess, right to life movement, sam baldwin, san antonio independent christian film festival, sarah mally, self supporting, sheltering children, stay at home daughters, t a byrnes, terri maxwell, the way home: beyond feminism and back to reality, tlc, trusting the lord with family planning, vision forum, wifely submission, woman’s constant sexual availability to her husband, women’s liberation, world’s strictest parents, yourself last

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 2088 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    God In A Deaf Child's Room

    FEBRUARY 17, 2009 12:31AM

    By Summer Mills


    Topics: child abuse, deafness, open call, family, health, mental health, childhood, mutism, suicide, angels

    • Editor's Pick
    • 44 Ratings
    • 6527 Views
    • 69 Comments
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    She Hit me: Forgiving My Mother

    FEBRUARY 2, 2009 2:29AM

    By Dr. Susanne Freeborn


    Topics: child abuse, mothers, health, family, belief and religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 1050 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    The Man in the Chair

    JANUARY 13, 2009 8:48AM

    By RoseBear


    Topics: family, disabled, paraplegics, child abuse, fathers, parents, sexual abuse, spinal cord injuries, paralysis

    • Editor's Pick
    • 40 Ratings
    • 1753 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    Child on Fire: The Molestation of Theresa

    DECEMBER 16, 2008 9:12AM

    By Dana Dangerous


    Topics: child abuse, dana douglas, danaruns, family, molestation

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1192 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Palin and Sexual Abuse Policies

    SEPTEMBER 24, 2008 7:55AM

    By Writing Raven


    Topics: sarah palin, sexual abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, alaska, rates, john mccain, vice president, alaska native, american indian, native american, indigenous, politics

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