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A comprehensive guide for adoptive parents on effectively and compassionately responding to children's problematic behavior. Read more

Janet Heimlich fully examines the phenomenon known as Religious Child Maltreatment, child abuse or neglect that is enabled by, or justified with, religious belief, scripture, or doctrine. Read more

This memoir by Jenna Miscavage Hill, the niece of the president of the Church of Scientology, David Miscavage, describes what it was like for her to grow up in, and ultimately escape from, the controversial religious organization. Read more

This documentary chronicles one survivor's abuse and domestic violence that occurred in her fundamentalist Mormon community and challenges the laws that protect these communities and fail victims. Read more

Noted pediatrician Paul Offit gives readers a never-before-seen look into the minds of those who choose to martyr themselves for their children in the name of religion by actively refusing to seek medical treatment for preventable or curable diseases. Read more

Pastor Crystal Lutton guides parents through a "grace-based." approach to child-rearing; her methods are Christian-based and devoid of physical punishment. Read more

Julia Scheeres uses the accounts of survivors of the the People's Temple cult to chronicle the abuses they suffered at the hands of religious leader Jim Jones. Read more

This campaign is a volunteer-driven network of that works to help achieve ratification by the US Senate of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and to implement its standards in the US. Read more

This membership organization provides support for pastoral counselors who offer spiritual resources as well as a psychological understanding to help others seek healing and growth. Read more

ACEs Connection is a social network that supports communities to accelerate the global science movement of Adverse Childhood Experiences, recognizes the impact of ACEs in shaping adult behavior and health, and promotes trauma-informed and resilience-building practices and policies in all communities and institutions to help heal and develop resilience instead of traumatizing already traumatized people. Read more