Newspaper articles, TV shows and books are filled with horror stories of children placed in foster care. A new study bucks that trend by showing out-of-home placements can improve the emotional health of some youths who have been maltreated by a parent. The study, led by Ann-Marie Conn, ...
Well, intergenerational trauma is a fact and is often a reason why kids wind up in foster care. Very often the parents of the kids in foster care experienced neglect, abuse, racism, neighborhood violence, or even foster care themselves. It’s not universally true, but it sure is the case...
Emotional Strength Some foster children need a short-term home while their birth parents are unwell, or otherwise temporarily unable to care for them at home. Others come from much more challenging backgrounds. Many of us struggle to listen to horror stories when they involve children. A good f...
Robbie also has two novels and a collection of short stories published under the name of Roberta Eaton Cheadle and has horror, paranormal, and fantasy short stories featured in several anthologies under this name. You can find Robbie Cheadle’s artwork, fondant and cake artwork, and all her bo...
What if you learned about some of the stories of children who were abused in foster care, children who suffered emotional trauma from being “kidnapped” from their home, forced to take psychotropic drugs for the resulting emotional traumas they endured, physically, emotionally and sexually ...
Through my years in foster care, bad behaviour was always dealt in the manner that we had to pack our bags, i remember being 7-9 and the many times that i had all my belongings in black garbage bags, not sure if this was really going to be the straw that broke the camels back, ...
power away to them. It’s the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don’t really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it. But since your good opinion is the sole arbitrator of my success and worth, you have tremendous power over me, and I fear you and hate...
Agent Fury is hard on people and doesn’t really care or worry about others’ feelings. But he’s also a great leader and likes to help others reach their true potential. I mean, that’s what Shield is all about. He is totally fine with being a rule-breaker too, especially if he ...
The way that I conceived it as a movie, it was really like a parable of all these people caught in this gilded cage that they can’t get out of. Everybody’s protesting too much. “I am a healthcare professional.” Or “I am the assassin.” Or “I fix people, I can’t do an...
“How much do we have?” She always cut to what mattered most, and in that minute, what mattered most was money. She didn't care how I lost my job, she only cared that we were a step closer to poverty. “We've got enough. Don't worry, I'll find something.” I didn't know...