Having kids offers many survivors our first insights into how toxic our own upbringing was. It also gives us emotional and ...

Rhianne struggled with guilt after leaving home. She left behind an abusive family: an alcoholic mother and a father who was never around to protect her and her siblings from her mother's binge ...

abuse and neglect, family substance misuse, incarceration, racism and poverty; and a greater awareness and willingness to look at and talk about mental health problems. And certainly, a greater ...

Ms. Fossli Moe is a filmmaker. When I was 19 years old, I cut ties with my father. I had a difficult, painful childhood, and I needed distance from him in order to heal. When I was 29 years old, I ...

I’m also sorry—but not surprised—that your family is minimizing, if not outright denying, your abuse. That must feel absolutely maddening to you. Unfortunately, your situation is all too ...

Dear Crossroads: Enough was enough when you finally realized your husband wasn’t going to change and accepted that he will never be strong enough to draw the line with his abusive family.

Monique Smith discovers that her abusive family wasn’t even her family at all in Lifetime’s newest movie “Not My Family: The Monique Smith Story” airing on Saturday, April 12. The ...

First family fleeing abuse get keys to The Independent’s safe haven - Survivor of abuse handed keys to new safe house ...

Enough was enough when you finally realized your husband wasn’t going to change and accepted that he will never be strong enough to draw the line with his abusive family. I’m surprised your ...

On the day of Kieu Lam’s death, her son received a call from his sisters asking for help after days of escalating abuse, only ...