Child Abuse

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  • Pain pills and angry mothers

    Readers respond to Damien Cave on the DEA's control of pain medication and to a mother lode of anger.
  • Private hell

    Who is to blame in the death of a California toddler and the alleged neglect of 12 siblings?
  • The mind of a killer

    A neurologist who studies murderers' brains talks about factors that make someone kill, the difficulty of predicting violence and why most murderers can never be rehabilitated.
  • Untouchable?

    Millions of people worship Sai Baba as God incarnate. More and more say the Indian guru is also a pedophile.
  • Holy abuse

    Five years after the last U.S. Hare Krishna boarding school closed, 79 former students are suing, claiming widespread physical and sexual abuse. Their attorney wants to take down the Krishnas gangster-style.
  • Searching for Rochelle

    I was the caseworker assigned to hunt for a sexually abused 2-year-old in the wilds of New York. First of two parts.
  • A hero's retreat

    Dad hit us, Mom watched, and then -- a miracle.
  • Life after near-death

    A burst of violence nearly killed her first child; should this mother get a second chance?
  • Richard knows best

    By Beth Broeker
  • Hunting pedophiles on the Net

    Is the truth about cybercrimes against children tamer than fiction?
  • Picking parents for Joshua

    His biological mom and dad nearly killed him. Now I must find the perfect people to give him a fresh start.
  • Higher calling

    Why did the Orthodox community ignore three decades' worth of allegations that Rabbi Baruch Lanner abused children in his care? Simple: He was good at his job.
  • Letting go of Thomas

    The baby's abuser is still uncharged, but the issue of his death -- in surrender or at the end of painful medical heroics -- finally reaches the court.
  • Life as a fate worse than death

    A lawyer tries to prevent the ultimate abuse of a tiny victim.
  • Is this child pornography?

    American photo labs are arresting parents as child pornographers for taking pictures of their kids in the bath.
  • Southern governors declare war on divorce

    But their methods ignore social science, solutions and their neediest constituents.
  • "Cruddy" by Lynda Barry

    A funny and harrowing illustrated novel about a kid whose parents' beatings can't keep her down.
  • From ballet to B&D and S/M?

    Evan Zimroth's elegiac memoir raises disturbing questions about girlhood femininity and brutal domination
  • "NYPD Blue" in a family way

    Mothers Who Think: NYPD Blue started out as a cop show, but it has become a meditation on the challenges, nightmares and blessings of parenthood
  • Mother rage: theory and practice

    All mothers have it. No one talks about it. That only makes it worse
  • Mommie Dearest in drag

    Why would Joan Crawford's daughter embrace the gay cult that thinks her child abuse, detailed in her memoir 'Mommie Dearest,' is one big campy joke?
  • femmes fatales

    Are women as violent as men
  • The Abandoned Newborn

  • You're not crazy, it's just Christmas

  • A bad thing happened on the beach

    anne lamott, word by word, cruelty to animals, dogs, child abuse, jesus, christianity
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