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Helping An Abused Child

I was an abused child. Let’s just get that out of the way. While I am not saying you have to be abused to understand how to help an abused child, it does help to have a better grasp of what abuse feels like and the damage it can do. Abuse takes many forms. It can be...

Searching for a Long-Lost Sibling

Do you have a brother or sister you’ve never met? It’s not all that uncommon. Parents get remarried, biological mothers and fathers drift out of their children’s lives, and adopted children struggle to discover the family trees of their birth family....