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Relationships
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago3 Steps to Setting Boundaries During Divorce
Renegotiating boundaries during divorce is essential for personal growth and maintaining healthy relationships.
Parenting
fromPsychology Today
4 days agoStolen Childhoods: Divorce and Emotional Parentification
Divorce can lead to emotional parentification, where children provide adult emotional support, harming both the child and the parent.
fromSlate Magazine
2 months agoParenting
My Ex and I Made a Pact to Protect the Kids. But Now He's Conniving Against Me in Sneaky Ways.
Maintaining family routines shields children emotionally but compels continued exposure to a manipulative ex who creates financial burdens, scheduling conflicts, and legal threats.
#family-dynamics
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology says the adults most likely to feel invisible in their own families are not the most difficult ones - they're the ones who made themselves so consistently available, so reliably capable, so quietly present, that everyone around them stopped noticing the person and started relying on the function - Silicon Canals
Reliability can lead to emotional invisibility within family dynamics, where the capable individual is overlooked despite their struggles.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology says the adults most likely to feel invisible in their own families are not the most difficult ones - they're the ones who made themselves so consistently available, so reliably capable, so quietly present, that everyone around them stopped noticing the person and started relying on the function - Silicon Canals
Reliability can lead to emotional invisibility within family dynamics, where the capable individual is overlooked despite their struggles.
#child-abuse
NYC parents
fromQNS
3 weeks agoQueens father indicted for murdering 2-year-old son after beating him in Long Island City shelter: DA - QNS
A Queens father was indicted for murdering his 2-year-old son after beating him while intoxicated at a homeless shelter in January; the child died from severe injuries including brain bleeds and organ damage.
NYC parents
fromQNS
3 weeks agoQueens father indicted for murdering 2-year-old son after beating him in Long Island City shelter: DA - QNS
A Queens father was indicted for murdering his 2-year-old son after beating him while intoxicated at a homeless shelter in January; the child died from severe injuries including brain bleeds and organ damage.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days agoIt started with a tip-off': how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram
Child sexual abuse trafficking surged during the pandemic, with platforms like Facebook and Instagram being exploited for these crimes.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoThere's a specific kind of guilt that belongs to people who left difficult families and built better lives. It's not survivor's guilt exactly. It's the knowledge that your peace required a distance that someone who raised you experiences as abandonment, and there is no version of the story where everyone is okay. - Silicon Canals
Family estrangement often leads to complex guilt that doesn't fit traditional narratives of victimhood or ingratitude.
NYC parents
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days agoA day in the life of a 19-year-old in ICE detention: I feel that this nightmare is not going to end'
Detention at Dilley Immigration Processing Center has severely impacted Olivia, a 19-year-old asylum seeker, leading to emotional distress and sleepless nights.
fromLos Angeles Times
5 days agoCalifornia parents didn't like the texts their teen daughter sent to boys; they tortured her to death
"This sentence reflects an unthinkable betrayal by parents who are meant to protect their children from harm. Pearlene was denied the chance to grow up and become who she was meant to be. There is no punishment that can restore the loss of life."
SF parents
fromwww.mediaite.com
6 days ago5-Year-Old Detained by ICE Tells CBS He's Still Scared of La Inmigracion' Parents Say He's Now Very Different'
Liam's parents reported that their son remains deeply scarred by his time in ICE detention, regularly seeing a psychologist to cope with his fears and trauma.
NYC parents
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month agoBaby died after L.A. County placed her with dad previously jailed for child abuse, lawsuit says
Alexis Servin claims that the county Department of Children and Family Services should have known the toddler's father, Alfredo Muñoz Jr., and stepmother, Kelly Muñoz, presented an "extreme and foreseeable danger." The couple were charged with felony abuse of two children in November 2021.
Los Angeles
NYC parents
fromGothamist
3 weeks agoQueens mother sues New York City over removal of baby without court order
New York City's Administration for Children's Services removes over 1,300 children annually without court orders, with emergency removals accounting for approximately half of all abuse and neglect cases, raising constitutional concerns about unlawful family separations.
Parenting
fromPinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
1 month ago'You don't need millions to adopt - kids just need love and a safe place'
A same-sex couple adopted two mixed-race sisters to prevent their separation in care, addressing the significant underrepresentation of Black and mixed-heritage children in adoption systems.
Relationships
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoI was warned my children would be ripped in half when we divorced. But I had no idea just how brutal custody cases can be
Legal custody often punishes mothers who deviate from maternal norms, prioritizing restraint, vilification, and parental division over genuine caregiving, causing lasting trauma.
US politics
fromAbove the Law
2 months agoJudge Releases 5-Year-Old, Reminding Us How Bleak Everything Is Right Now - Above the Law
Administrative warrants issued by the executive to itself fail probable cause and require independent judicial authorization, prompting release of a detained five-year-old.
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