Mandy Smith

Here’s why we must stop viewing abused girls as “bad” girls.

A recent Facebook post from a man berating his girlfriends’ 14 year-old daughter–calling her “ungrateful, entitled, belligerent, defiant, rebellious, etc.–implored an immediate response from me; however, I held back. My claws were out too far, my heart pounded too violently, and the cuss words I’d splattered across the screen of my co Read more of this blog post »