Explains five warning signs of coercive online exploitation and concrete steps parents can take to reduce risk.
Offenders use threats and manipulation to coerce victims to produce imagery or livestream sexually explicit acts, self-harm or animal cruelty. How can you protect your child? The sadistic online groomers targeting victims around the world – and a mother’s struggle to keep her daughter safe Inside the horrifying online network where children coerce others to commit violence and self-harm Authorities globally have warned about a sharp increase in the “sadistic online exploitation” of young people…
A firsthand account of Ireland’s shift from two-tier maternity care toward universal state provision.
An unfair two-tier system is, at last, giving way to universal state care. But private interests and highly paid doctors are resisting There were no chandeliers in the public ward where I spent my first days as a mother, at the oldest continuously operating maternity hospital in the world. The room echoed with cries, the well-worn floor bouncing under footsteps, the windows looking out on Dublin’s city centre. Now the Rotunda hospital, where I’m due to give birth again soon, is counting down to…