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...change in the law will treat the people perpetrating the exploitation as criminals and the children and young people as victims. At the moment this isn’t always so, partly because children in this situation are commonly misidentified and often absent in official data reports. The children may be considered in need, but often are not if the family are seen as supportive,...

...changes that are not inherited from either parent, so-called de novo mutations, can also play a role in the development of autism. Researchers think that these de novo gene variants may play a more prominent role in those families where just one person has autism (also called sporadic autism). The occurrence of new genetic changes, not inherited from either parent, could...