David Schwimmer (Ross from Friends) and Clive Owen have teamed up to create Trust, a new film highlighting the threats that teenagers face online. Cal Thomas, a columnist for Tribune Media Services, writes “In an age where every cell phone is a computer with Internet access, there are no ‘parental controls’ that can fully protect …
One of the most frequent questions we get from the community is why kids don’t tell anyone about abuse, keep it a secret for so long, or never tell at all. A few facts will help us: Researchers tell us that only about 30% of abused children tell an adult or ask for help. Girls …
Yesterday Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and John Cornyn (R-TX) re-introduced the Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Deterrence and Victims Support Act, a bill which seeks to put an end to what they describe as “modern-day slavery” and one of the fastest growing crimes in the U.S. It was standing-room only at a briefing that the Senators …
As I was getting ready to come to the office this morning, an ad caught my attention “Do you want to save tax payers in SC 180 million a year? Then invest in programs that prevent teen pregnancy.” As a state, and as a country, we DO need to invest in programs that prevent teen …
At the age of 18, Stacey Lannert shot her father twice while he slept. He had sexually abused her from the age of 8, but the final straw came when he also began raping her younger sister. Lannert confessed and was found guilty of first-degree murder. The judge later said the mandatory sentence of life …
