Cognitive maturation refers to the biological development of the brain by which an individual’s thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving abilities evolve and become more sophisticated as they grow ...

Getting over emotional abuse and learning to love again is a journey that takes time, support, and a commitment to your own well-being.

Years later, it was emotional abuse. And then, sexual abuse ... What is striking about this is that any universal behavior is, by definition, normal, but even the most liberal churches either condemn, ...

T'puram: A 14-year-old boy studying in Class IX at a school in the city, has filed a police complaint alleging physical and mental harassment by four teachers. The student complained that he ...

The seven members of one of Scotland's biggest child sex abuse rings have been given life-long sentences and warned that they may never be released. Three victims under the age of 13 were ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Archbishop of Lima Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne celebrates a Mass, Jan. 18, 2001 in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo ...

That declaration serves as a trigger to unlock powers contained in 150 different provisions of law, including some that carry alarming potential for abuse ... the very definition of “emergency ...

Claims spread that definitions of "male" and "female" included in a January 2025 executive order that asserted sex is established at conception accidentally classified all Americans as women.

Yet Trump’s new sex definitions affect not only transgender people, whose gender identity will no longer be acknowledged by executive branch agencies, but also everyone else who may soon find ...

Victims of domestic abuse are being failed by a criminal justice system that is not up to the job, a damning report by the domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales has said. Dame Nicole ...

“The one gaping hole that I continued to find on all the special committees I was on and the study committee was that we don’t have an updated definition of what child abuse and endangerment ...