Where there is help, there is hope. It’s easy to focus on the grim statistics and damaging toll taken by child abuse and neglect. A portion of the Michigan Children’s Trust Fund efforts is raising awareness of the cost that maltreatment reaps on individuals and society. …

The Link Between Child Abuse and Human Trafficking Child abuse and human trafficking have a long list of distressing commonalities. Both involve power and control over someone else. Both use fear and violence as techniques in practice. Both are steeped in the disregard and debasement of another human life. …

It’s impossible to accurately gauge incidents of child abuse when children are isolated with their abusers and are cut off from a primary pipeline of help. From unemployment and economic uncertainty to low self-esteem and isolation, additional stressors associated with natural disasters and times of crises increase the risk of…