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How to Address Unmet Emotional Needs After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Abused children have many emotional needs that go unmet. Their abusers shatter the hope of meeting basic needs, such as the need to trust, to feel safe or to feel worthy of love. For abused children living in very abusive households, numerous ... more »

How to Cope While a Loved One Is Incarcerated

By eHow Relationships & Family Editor

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While a loved one is incarcerated, you may have to confront financial and emotional health issues. Here are some tips for coping... more »

How to Cope with Anxiety After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Many adult survivors of child abuse struggle with anxiety. Survivors of child abuse often have trouble relaxing and face issues like obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In many cases, the anxiety is fueled by repressed anger. Because the anger ... more »

How to Forgive an Abuser After Childhood Abuse

By FaithAllen

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People who have been abused as children often balk at the thought of forgiving their abusers. Few abusers, if any, deserve forgiveness. However, every abuse survivor deserves to be freed from her past. Forgiveness is the key to letting go of the ... more »

How to Heal Children After Forced Animal Cruelty

By FaithAllen

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Some abusers torment their child victims by forcing them to do actions that harm animals. Sometimes this involves physically harming an animal. Other times, it involves forcing sexual acts between a child and an animal. In both cases, the child ... more »

How to Heal the Inner Child After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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When most people think about an inner child, they think about the joy from childhood that they left behind as they entered the adult world. For the adult survivor of child abuse, the inner child is much different. Rather than leaving behind a ... more »

How to Hold Onto Faith After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Many adult survivors of child abuse wrestle with holding onto their faith, especially as they work through the healing process. As the child abuse survivor faces the enormity of the damage inflicted by the abuse, he can have trouble believing in ... more »

How to Identify a Spousal Batterer

By eHow Relationships & Family Editor

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Although a spousal batterer is most often a man, it can also be a woman. Look for the following signs if you suspect that someone is abusing his or her spouse... more »

How to Identify a Victim of Elderly Abuse

By eHow Relationships & Family Editor

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Elderly people who are dependent on others for care can fall victim to physical, emotional and financial abuse or neglect. Here's how to spot potential problems... more »

How to Love Self After Childhood Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Most adult survivors of childhood abuse have a very hard time learning to love themselves. They see themselves through their abusers' eyes, and they hate what they see. Learning how to love yourself is the foundation for healing from childhood ... more »

How to Prevent Domestic Violence

By JanCast2007

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Domestic violence is a serious crime that thrives on the use of emotional, psychological and physical abuse to control and isolate the victim. It is enacted by both men and women across all socioeconomic classes, ethnicity, culture and race. ... more »

How to Set a Relationship Boundary After Childhood Abuse

By FaithAllen

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People who were abused as children were taught that they had no relationship boundaries. They had no say over what their abusers did to their bodies or souls. As adults, survivors of childhood abuse often have trouble setting a relationship ... more »

How to Stop Feeling Shame After Childhood Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Shame is a hallmark of childhood abuse. Most adult survivors of childhood abuse struggle with feelings of shame. Shame causes abuse survivors to loathe themselves and feel unworthy of receiving kindness or compassion from anyone. The adult ... more »

How to Trust After Childhood Abuse

By FaithAllen

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The inability to trust is a hallmark of childhood abuse. After being betrayed as a child, it is hard for the adult survivor of childhood abuse to risk trusting again. Many adult survivors of childhood abuse question whether learning how to trust ... more »

How to Make an Anonymous Report to Child Protective Services

By eHow Relationships & Family Editor

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All children deserve to grow up in nurturing and safe homes. Child abuse (whether it be physical, sexual or emotional) will negatively impact the victim for a lifetime. If you have a reasonable suspicion that a child is being maltreated, it is ... more »

How to Volunteer for a Battered Women's Shelter

By eHow Relationships & Family Editor

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Volunteering at a domestic violence shelter requires time, empathy and knowledge about the issue of violence in the home... more »

How to Deal With Flashbacks After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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People who were abused as children often struggle with flashbacks as adults. A flashback is a memory that the brain stored in a different way because of the terror surrounding the event. In most cases, the information in the flashback was ... more »

How to Discuss Estranged Family After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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Many adult survivors of child abuse are estranged from their families. In some cases, the child abuse survivor is the one to break contact by setting healthy boundaries in her life. In other cases, the abusive family ostracizes the abuse survivor ... more »

How to Know When to Tell Your Partner NO MORE!

By Mary Ann I

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This can be really tough because you love or care for this person, but if you let him/her ruin you, then what good will come of it, NONE, just harm to you and those who love you... more »

How to Cure Insomnia After Child Abuse

By FaithAllen

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People who suffered child abuse often struggle with insomnia as adults. Because abused children were awakened repeatedly from sleep to be violated in their beds, abused children often grow into adults who feel unsafe when they try to fall asleep ... more »

How to deal with a alcoholic spouse

By imaqueen1975

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dealing with alcoholism in a relationship... more »

How to Get Out of an Abusive Relationship

By eHow Relationships & Family Editor

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If you are in an abusive relationship, the most important thing to do is get out of the relationship. Doing so can save your life and the lives of your children. Nobody deserves to be abused in a relationship, and there are infrastructures put in ... more »

How to Help a Friend Out of an Abusive Relationship

By deannarjd

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Watching a loved one, family or friend going through an abusive relationship is difficult and frustrating to experience. Now imagine how the victim of the abuse feels. It is imperative that what you do supports your friend and does not further ... more »

How to Identify a Victim of Spousal Abuse

By eHow Relationships & Family Editor

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Spousal abuse may take the form of physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse and verbal threats of violence... more »

How to Keep Violence as a Last Resort

By TheHairDresser

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In this writing, I am explaining ways to only use violence when absolutely a last option. In the thought that violence is never okay, in a life-threatening situation, if one stands by that adage, then one must be prepared to die for what they ... more »

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