Family Rights and Child Abuse News

8 Food Risks Going Unmonitored During the Shutdown

by Lindsay Abrams

Among the ostensibly "non-essential" services on hold during the government shutdown is the Food and Drug Administration's food inspection program. As many as 80 food production facilities each day may be going uninspected.

Food coming from outside the U.S. is also going unmonitored. As Food Safety News first reported, meat inspectors at the USDA are still on duty, but food-safety workers at the FDA are not allowed to use their cellphones, check their emails or, most important, inspect imported food. Normally, according to Quartz, the FDA blocks imports from tens of thousands of facilities with records of violations.

alternet.org

October 12, 2013

8 Michigan families allege state adoption fraud

by Louise Knott Ahern

Agencies lied about children's health, they say.

Eight families with 19 adopted children are suing the state Department of Human Services in connection with their adoptions. The number of children involved was incorrect in a story on Page 1A of Thursday's State Journal and in an earlier version of this story. Child welfare offices in Ingham and Clinton counties are among several public and private agencies named in a lawsuit filed Thursday alleging social workers lied to adoptive parents of special needs children about their kids' disabilities and denied them funding available for parents of disabled children.

lansingstatejournal.com

September 12, 2012

8 Ways to Prepare Your Little Boy to Be a Man

Little boys are wonderful, but they will not stay little forever. When they are grown they will be men - men with life responsibilities, wives, and families. What tools do our little boys need to be properly equipped to face manhood?

As the parents of these little boys, we must be actively working to provide them with the tools they need to face life as a man. As the husbands and fathers in our society become less and less able to handle the pressures of life in a Godly and responsible way, our families, our churches, and our country begins to crumble from the inside out. Let's raise up a generation of real men who will stand for God, take responsibility for their families, and and do right at all costs!

imperfecthomemaker.com

June 23, 2015

8-year-old sex offender to receive counseling

by Chad Halcom

An 8-year-old Mount Clemens boy apparently will become the youngest county resident ever to get court-ordered counseling and rehabilitation for sex offenders under a recent plea deal and sentence agreement in court.

Meanwhile, officials say, the effort continues to build a case that his alleged attack upon female classmates at Alexander Macomb Elementary School may be the result of some unhealthy influence by a former father figure in his home.

The Macomb Daily (MI)

November 20, 2003

9 charged in death of disabled Philly teen

For days before Danieal Kelly died in a fetid, airless room - made stifling hot by a midsummer heat wave - the bedridden teenager begged for something to drink until she could muster only one word: water.

The nightmare of forced starvation and infection that killed Danieal while she was under the protection of the city's human services agency is documented in a 258-page grand jury report released this week that charges nine people - her parents, four social workers and three family friends - in her ghastly death.

MSNBC

August 1, 2008