Millions of American children are exposed to violence in their homes each year, putting them at risk for a variety of emotional and behavioral problems. According to a new study in the September/October 2008 issue of the journal Child Development, children who are maltreated tend to have a lot of re-exposure to family violence, and this re-exposure often leads to increased psychological problems.

Australian school at center of child-sex allegations pulls newsletter mentioning 'Penthouse' as recommended reading.

Leading child advocates have called for a new approach to tackling child abuse and neglect amid rising rates of abuse notifications and children being brought into State care.

A couple of Scientology "security guards" made fools of themselves on Sunday, in addition to personifying the Scientology cult's bizarre and dangerous attitude toward children.

Yesterday Texas District Judge Barbara Walther vacated the temporary orders granting the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) sole temporary managing conservatorship of children from YFZ Ranch.

A truth-and-reconciliation commission examining what Indian leaders call one of the most tragic and racist chapters in Canada's history will begin its work on Sunday.

A University of Georgia study that is the first to systematically examine a large sample of female child molesters finds that many of them were themselves victims of sexual abuse as children.

A team of McGill University scientists has discovered important differences between the brains of suicide victims and so-called normal brains. Although the genetic sequence was identical in the suicide and non-suicide brains, there were differences in their epigenetic marking – a chemical coating influenced by environmental factors.

Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out. Two weeks before the beginning of his trip to the United States, his spokesperson Federico Lombardi S.J. said the pope would tackle the delicate issue of the pedophile priests, who have brought the Catholic church into disrepute since 2003.

Adults who experienced child abuse and have variations of a gene related to stress response appear to be at greater risk of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms as adults, according to a study in the March 19 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on Genetics and Genomics.

A traumatic event is much more likely to result in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults who experienced trauma in childhood – but certain gene variations raise the risk considerably if the childhood trauma involved physical or sexual abuse, scientists have found.

In many cases, when abusive parents with multiple children target just one child for emotional or physical cruelty, authorities often remove the abused child from the home and return the non-abused siblings.