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How to Protect and Support LGBTQ Youth and Families

The LGBTQ community, consisting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals, faces unique challenges in society due to discrimination, prejudice, and a lack of understanding. Supporting LGBTQ youth, couples, and families is essential for fostering inclusive communities and ensuring that everyone can live authentically and without fear. This guide aims to provide insights into…
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Protecting Children With Fire Safety

Did you know that kids just like you can be fire safety superheroes? It’s true! Learning about fire safety is really important for kids of all ages. Fires can happen when we least expect them, and they can be very dangerous. But knowing what to do to prevent a fire from happening, how to prepare…
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A Guide to Effective Co-Parenting for Divorced Parents

Co-parenting after a separation or divorce is not just a legal arrangement; it is a fundamental aspect of ensuring your children’s well-being and development. While co-parenting comes with its share of complexities, co-parenting effectively can provide a healthy and nurturing environment for your children. Understanding Co-Parenting Co-parenting, at its essence, involves both parents actively participating…
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Childhood Bullying Prevention Tips and Resources

Bullying is defined as a pattern of aggressive behavior that’s intended to hurt or intimidate someone. Schoolyard bullies have been a problem for generations, and today’s children still have to deal with them, although the tactics bullies use have evolved. Whether bullying happens in physical or verbal form or online, the psychological effects of being…
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Drug and Alcohol Prevention Strategies to Protect Children

Drugs and alcohol are all around us every day, from people smoking cigarettes on the street to pictures of celebrities partying with a bottle of liquor in their hand. When these behaviors go unchallenged, they can seem acceptable to children, which is why it’s important to start teaching kids about the dangers of these addictive…
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Resources for Protecting Children Online

The Internet can be amazingly useful, with virtually any type of information available at users’ fingertips. But as helpful as the Internet is as a resource, it is also a potentially dangerous tool. When children use the Internet, they need protection from inappropriate content, malicious software, and contact with undesirable people. It’s important to learn…
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Law Resources for LGBTQ+ Families

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision legalizing same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges was a turning point for the legal rights of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) people in the United States. However, LGBTQ individuals still face legal hardships in the areas of criminal justice, employment, health care, housing, immigration, and military service. There…
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Recognizing the Signs of Child Abuse

We have all probably noticed something unusual about a child. It could be an unexplained bump or bruise. It could be a change in personality in a child. Or, it could even be not receiving medical attention when required. All of these scenarios are examples of children being the possible victim of child abuse or…
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Study Finds Ohio Courts’ Parenting Time Guidelines to be Less than Ideal

A recent study by the National Parents Organization (NPO) found that the parenting time guidelines of the majority of Ohio’s county courts of domestic relations was less than ideal for the wellbeing of children of separated parents. The NPO’s cites research that shows a correlation between benefits to the mental health of children of divorce…
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America’s Shifting Divorce Rates and the Rise of Gray Divorce

Divorce rates in the United States are surprisingly on the decline. A recent study by the University of Maryland shows an 18 percent drop in the divorce rate between 2008 and 2018. This trend, however, does not apply to a certain demographic though, older Americans. In fact, adults 50 and older are actually divorcing at…
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