Welcome to BellaOnline's Child Abuse newsletter. The Child abuse site promotes healing from physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and verbal, child abuse and neglect by providing education and resources to aid the survivor in healing from the trauma experienced in child hood.

If you decide to subscribe to BellaOnline’s child Abuse newsletter you will be notified each time a new article posts. Rest assured that BellaOnline works hard to protect your privacy. We will never sell your information to anyone or any company, for any reason. My goal is to post articles every Saturday.

I encourage you to visit BellaOnline’s Child Abuse site for a wealth of information on recovering from the trauma childhood abuse or neglect. As you read through the articles please feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions, concerns, or ideas for future articles. I am always open to honest and constructive feedback. I want to hear from you...What articles are you looking for here?

If moved to do so please feel free to post a note in the Child Abuse Forum. Hopefully we can begin discussing the reality of child abuse in a respectful manner. Please be considerate of other's thoughts and feelings as this is a sensitive subject. After all, BellaOnline is a family friendly website and we are all here to listen and support each other.

I look forward to hearing from each of you.

There are several ways to contact me through the Child Abuse Website at BellaOnline, however if you do elect to email me understand you may not receive a response for several days. BellaOnline editors are strictly volunteers and work full time jobs so it may be several days before I am able to send off a reply (if a reply is necessary).

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You are always encouraged to forward any information you feel is appropriate to friends and family interested in the topic of or recovering from Child Abuse. I believe the more information available on a topic the faster people learn how to help themselves and how to help others.

Thank you for visiting BellaOnline's Child Abuse website and have a blessed day-


Erika Lyn Smith
BellaOnline's Child Abuse Editor