I go to gross movies and listen to heavy metal and rap music and I haven't killed anybody," a teenager said on a call-in radio show devoted to the tragic murders in Littleton. This young woman completely missed the point. These things provoke anger, temper, and crummy attitudes. Gross visuals and...

Child Abuse among the children in the United States Child abuse is a term generally the mistreatment of a child by a parent or another adult. There is no standard definition of child abuse, however. A short and simple definition can be limited to the life-threatening physical violence, including ...

When people think of dysfunctional families they tend to think of fatherless homes, impoverished households, and child abuse. Very rarely does this train of thought lead to one of the most predominant sources of many of these symptoms: alcoholism. I suffered through those symptoms (as well as others...