I have been following the story of the ”lewd” incidents at Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles. Today’s update is that the entire staff at Miramonte Elementary is being replaced immediately. The replacement strategy may be permanent or temporary. The parents of students at Miramonte Elementary are angry and frustrated because the school failed to protect [...]
While everyone debates the legacy of Joe Paterno, I want to talk about what we can learn from Joe Paterno’s situation about child sexual safety. I believe Joe Paterno when he says that he didn’t understand how a man could have sex with a boy and that he backed away from the situation and turned [...]
In several different blogs, I have used the term “intrusive supervision.” Intrusive supervision is intended to help keep your children safe. Intrusive supervision is an added level of supervision that most parents do not provide. It goes a step further in protecting your children. Intrusive supervision is based on the concept of “trust, but verify.” [...]
Last week a news story began appearring in the national media about a sexual assault on a school bus in Houston. The assault occurred in August, but the investigation by the police and child protective services took several months to complete. The assault occurred on a special needs bus. Allegedly, two 10-year-old Houston boys sexually [...]
For someone who works with sexualized children and sexually abused children, I can still occasionally be naive. Even I was caught a little off guard when I learned that the governor of Iowa is introducing a bill that would require nursing homes to issue notifications when a registred sex offender becomes a resident of the [...]
At a time when politicians are questioning the value of academic research, USC researchers demonstrated that theoretical research can be developed into practical research. USC social psychologists have developed a questionnaire that will help identify youths likely to join or leave a gang. Once a youth has been identified as likely to either join a [...]
For more than 80 years, rape has been defined narrowly as penetration of a woman’s vagina, but excluded oral or anal penetration and the rape of men. According to NBC news, “The new definition will include any gender of the victim and attacker and also assaults in which a victim cannot give consent because the [...]
This morning I read an article about how laws that restrict sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools, parks, churches, and other places where children gather have the unintended consequence of creating areas in town with large concentrations of sex offenders. The article was written because nine-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and killed by [...]
When I first started teaching at Lubbock Christian University in the Fall of 1993, I had students in my psychology courses who asked me why a Christian university taught psychology. At the same time, I was working on my doctorate in counseling and had professors and other doctoral students question how I could hold Christian [...]
Adolescents, like adults in our culture, can struggle with depression. Depression may manifest itself through a drop in grades or through uncharacteristic or excessive irritability in adolescents. Adolescents who are depressed may be mood, act out, and even hurt themselves by cutting or burning their skin. Sometimes, when adolescents seem oppositional, they may actually be [...]
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