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How Chessy Prout Stood Up For Herself and All Victims of Rape
A 17-year-old girl named Chessy Prout is a teenage superhero. Two years ago, when she was a freshman in high school, Chessy accepted a date with a senior, an 18-year-old athlete named Owen Labrie, who was headed to Harvard in the fall. Both Labrie and Chessy Prout were students at the prestigious New England boarding…
The Effects of School Violence on Victims
School violence is a part of the larger problem of youth violence. Youth violence is bullying, punching, slapping and using weapons, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of 2010, 55.5 million students go to pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in the United States, and another 15 million attend colleges and universities. Violent acts disrupt the learning process and have negative effects on the students.
The Effects of School Bullying on Victims
A child bullied at school can suffer both emotionally and physically. This is because bullying really is a type of abuse, reports the National Mental Health Information Center. The effects of school bullying are much the same as a child suffering from other forms of abuse. In some cases, the effects are subtle and are not easily recognized by parents.
How to Recover Financially and Emotionally After Losing Your Home in a Wildfire
How to Recover Financially and Emotionally After Losing Your Home in a Wildfire
Los Angeles is the birthplace of ModernMom.com, and it’s been heart-wrenching to see so many suffering in our community.
When a natural disaster strikes, the financial losses are staggering, but as moms, our first concern is often for our families. How do we explain this to our kiddos? How do we support our partners while holding ourselves together? How do we even find the strength to ask for help when we feel like we need to do it all? How are we going to get through this? It’s all so overwhelming.
How to Save Your Kid from Drowning
Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for, are rarely seen in real life.