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The Privatization of Our Children

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: California, Child Welfare, Child Abuse, Rural America, Children, Non-Profits, Privatization, Child Protective Services, Foster Care, Children's Health, Living News
Daniel Heimpel

The question must be floated: can we as a society be engaged in privatizing our children?

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Child Abduction: Take A Deep Breath

Lenore Skenazy | Posted 08.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Schools, Pedophilia, Child-Protective-Services, Volunteer, New York News
Lenore Skenazy

Sometimes, when I try to explain how frenzied we have become about the real but extremely rare crime of childhood abduction, or of rampant pedophilia in general, I compare our era to 1692 Salem.

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What Cindy McCain and Michael Jackson Have in Common

Stanton Peele | Posted 08.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Child Molestation, Michael Jackson, Hasselhoff Drunk Video, Stanton Peele, David Hasselhoff, Prescription Addiction, Parental-Rights, Cindy McCain, Prescription Drugs, Child Protective Services, Prescription Painkillers, Entertainment News
Stanton Peele

In family courts around the United States, children are taken from parents addicted to drugs. I observed this first hand in New Jersey, where I defended such parents.

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Youth Speak Up and Stand Out in Chicago

Michelle Renee | Posted 11.22.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Child Protective Services, Youth Advocacy Trauma Victims, Childhood Trauma, Youth Trauma, National Child Traumatic Stress Network, Cps, Chicago News
Michelle Renee

Until recently youth have been ignored in trauma treatment, program and outreach strategy development. This, we are discovering, is a mistake.

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Texas Appeals Polygamist Sect Ruling

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 05.31.2008 | Home

Read More: Texas, Appeals, Flds, Polygamy, Polygamist Sect, Child Protective Services, Texas Supreme Court, Home News

SAN ANGELO, Texas — State child welfare authorities on Friday appealed a stinging court ruling that said their seizure of more than 440 children...

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TX Appellate Court Says "No Dice" on Keeping the Kids

Deborah King | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Willie Jessop, Child Protective Services, Sect Children, Texas, Third Court of Appeals, Flds, Texas FLDS Ruling, FLDS Raid, Breaking Politics News, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Latter Day Saints, Politics News
Deborah King

We are still left with the question why any parent would willingly keep their child in a household where girls are at risk of a forced marriage to some old codger before the age of 16.

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From San Angelo, TX

Deborah King | Posted 05.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Family Service Plan, Child Protective Services, Fundamentalists Latter-Day Saints, San Angelo, Flds, Polygamy, Tx, Cult, Home News
Deborah King

If a boy in FLDS shows any indication of wanting to think for himself, he is dumped outside of town by his parents and becomes a non-person, unable to contact his family.

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