When Teenage Love Becomes Ownership
Teenage relationships can be intense, emotional and sometimes chaotic. That does not mean every harmful pattern should be dismissed as immaturity or teenage drama.
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Young people
11 articles on this theme.
They Didn’t Just “Go Off the Rails”
When a teenager or very young adult appears in court accused of supplying drugs, we tend to meet them at the end of the story. Nineteen years old. Drugs. Supply. Court.
The Parrot Letter Pattern: When a Letter Is Not the Whole Truth
It may say the older person is “of sound mind”. It may accuse one child of interfering, upsetting the family or causing trouble.
The Presumption Problem
Every time a tragedy happens, we ask the same question. What assumptions did we make along the way?.
The Forgotten Transition: When Young People Leave School and Enter the Workplace
We spend years preparing young people for exams. We spend very little time preparing them for work.
The Predatory Pathway
When people hear the phrase predatory marriage, they often picture an elderly widow being persuaded to marry a much younger person shortly before her death.
The Facade of the Perfect Parent
The Facade of the Perfect Parent
Adolescent Domestic Abuse: The Hidden Crisis Affecting Both Boys and Girls
But one of the most overlooked safeguarding issues today is adolescent domestic abuse.
When you zoom out: coercive control at scale
When people think of human trafficking, they often picture one trafficker and one victim.
Parental Alienation
Parental alienation is often talked about as something that happens after parents separate. A messy breakup. A high-conflict dispute. A child “choosing sides”.
When abuse doesn’t look like abuse, until it’s too late
I want to talk about a friend who died in 2008, aged just 47. She was bright, funny, clever, a nurse, a devoted mum.