It’s tempting for us to try to control children’s engagement with religion and spirituality—but there’s a better way.

I learned long ago, through observing parent-child and teacher-child interactions, that you can't make children do anything. We don't have the power to control them. Our power is in how we support and ...

All children suffer in families where one partner abuses and controls the other (Stark, 2023). In our work, we have seen that first-born child often suffer the most. In coercive control, one person ...

How much control should a parent have over what their child talks about with a school therapist? That question is at the center of a bill being considered at the Utah Legislature and on Friday, it put ...