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Why do dead kids need protecting? 04/24/2007 05:14 PM http://www.azcentral.com/blogs/index.php?blog=135&title=why_do_dead_kids_need_protecting&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1&blogtype= House Government Committee Chairman Kirk Adams announced Tuesday that he’s planning private hearings on three kids killed...

"fx" wrote in message ... (snip) CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE...

Adoptive parents charged with starving child to death Web Posted: 08/27/2007 09:07 PM CDT Wendy Rigby KENS 5 Eyewitness News The adoptive parents of a little girl are charged with child abuse and may face murder charges after their 8-year-old died Friday, apparently having been starved to...

Judge reviews evidence in DeLeon case Thomas Clouse Staff writer June 29, 2007 http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=10502 COLVILLE – Attorneys engaged in verbal battle Thursday as they shaped the evidence that an Okanogan County jury will use to decide the fate of

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Police look at 2nd abuse accusation Portland - After a foster child is hurt, a mother says she had reported injuries to her girl in the home Saturday, June 30, 2007 AIMEE GREEN The Oregonian http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news/118317391652560.xml&coll=7 Portland police are...

Regional Op-Ed | JoAnn Chartier: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid By: JoAnn Chartier, Cheshire, OR Published: Jul 9, 2007 at 07:52 http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_60822.shtml A tragedy may be just a tickle away for you or a member of your family. I know, because my son was arrested last...

Potent Pills: More foster kids getting mood-altering drugs Gary Craig Staff writer http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071209/NEWS01/71206023/1002/NEWS (December 9, 2007) — When Laticia Anderson's son entered foster care in 2005, a social worker described the...

Custody hearing today for foster parents' other children Associated Press - August 6, 2007 9:45 AM ET http://www.wdtn.com/Global/story.asp?S=6890935 BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) - A hearing is scheduled in southwest Ohio this afternoon to decide who'll get custody of David and Liz Carroll's four...

One of the great lessons that no-spanks and other radical liberals often make in their references to organized slavery and women's rights is in failing to acknowledge that a vast collection of laws perpetuated both slavery and the rights movement. No one in his right mind would try to enforce...

I am a parent of 2 very young school aged girls. There are times I wonder if I am being the best parent for them. My spouse and I both work, just like other parents. We went through the years (and expense) of daycare. We have gone through the abuse at daycare. We have done everything that other...

Lawmakers poised to approve foster-care changes Wednesday, September 12, 2007 By STEPHEN MAJORS ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=375658&Category=13&subCategoryID= COLUMBUS Potentially dangerous foster parents will be flagged by a law enforcement database, and...

http://caymannetnews.com/2006/01/1005/letter3.shtml LETTER TO THE EDITOR Muddying the waters on spanking Wednesday, January 11, 2006 Dear Sir, I host a website, http://www.nopaddle.com/ about school corporal

http://www.corpun.com/usd00009.htm -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin

Mother given second shot at son Aug. 17, 2007 06:17 PM This week's candidate for mother of the year: Tina Tatum. http://www.azcentral.com/news/columns/articles/0817roberts0818-ON.html When we last saw Tatum in May 2005, she was in court charged with child abuse, sobbing to a judge how it wasn't...

bobandcarole wrote: September 29, 2006 - The following is an instant message exchange a former page says he had with Rep. Foley in 2003. Maf54 (7:25:14 PM): hey Auto response from Xxxxxxxxx (7:25:14 PM): scrounging for food...brb

Here is a study by Straus that show that spanking approval rates went from 90%+ in 1968 down to 68% in 1994. http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/CP27.pdf Here are the homicide rates during the same period. # The homicide rate nearly doubled from the mid 1960's to the late 1970's. # In 1980, it peaked...

So much so, that DCF in FL recognized its efficacy in fighting child abuse and neglect in a vulnerable population. You know, it, though, DCF somehow just couldn't find the CASH to provide for UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL FOR ALL FAMILIES OF LOWER INCOME WHO DESIRED IT. Instead, they fund people who ride...

Nov. hearing on Amy Baker immunity BY EILEEN KELLEY | http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070914/NEWS01/309140008/-1/CINCI MAYSVILLE – Prosecutors from Hamilton and Clermont counties will appear in a Kentucky court in November so that a judge may sort...

Yet these things are said to be scientific. We study them. And I think ordinary people with commonsense ideas are intimidated by this pseudoscience. A teacher who has some good idea of how to teach her children to read is forced by the school system to do it some other way--or is even fooled by the...