Q: My daughter is 19 and moving out for the first time to go live with her boyfriend in another town about 4 hours away. There’s so many things I’m afraid she doesn’t know about. I don’t know what all to say to her for her to be safe. I can’t stop crying about the [...]

Q: I just wanted to ask you a question about a possible sign of sexual abuse in a child. If the child is often pushing on her private area when sitting and also sometimes rocking back and forth, could this be a sign of possible abuse? A: You didn’t mention the age of the child [...]

Q: My 32-year-old fiancé and I are about to have our first baby. His mother lives 3000 miles away from us and though she is a nice lady — she is also very needy. Her husband (his father) died 12 years ago, and when he was alive neither of them had friends outside of each [...]

Q: Several of my brothers and sisters, including myself, feel our mother (89 years old) is suffering from severe undue influence…perhaps even Stockholm Syndrome…at the hands of our oldest sibling, a sister who is 68. This feeling has been around for many years although it has gotten stronger since our oldest sibling (female and single, [...]

Q: I’m dating a guy who has been separated from his wife for 7 or 8 years and together they have 5 kids. He and I just had twins this year. I have two kids by another person. She recently moved down the street from us and it’s a problem for me because we (the [...]

Q: I have four beautiful grandchildren, a girl and a boy from each of our children. Their ages: 6 months, two five years old, and one 7 years old. They have been coming to our home since they were all born and usually all together except for the youngest. We have been having them overnight [...]

Q: My grandson turned 1 this month. Two weeks prior his mom and I had noticed a behaviour change. He has always been a loving, sweet, smiling, hugging child and 2 weeks before his birthday it was as if his light had gone out and another child had replaced ours. He doesn’t smile, laugh or [...]