Family Rights and Child Abuse News

Octuplets Mom Battles Critics!

by Warner Bros. Online

With 14 children, no job and $50K in student loans, Nadya Suleman has sparked public outrage over her decision to take government aid for her family.

Now, Nadya is biting back! "I am not living off taxpayer's money," Suleman said on NBC's "Dateline." "If I am, it's Food Stamps and it's a temporary resource." She adds, "It's not welfare."

Extra

February 11, 2009

NY Teachers Union Protecting Sexual Predators

by Warner Todd Huston

One of the more absurd aspects of the New York school system is that the teachers union is given the right to investigate itself when teachers are accused of sexual misconduct.

In too many cases the union sides with the criminal teachers instead of their victims. In the Wall Street Journal, Campbell Brown laments this cozy relationship that unions have with their predator members citing several examples of the failure to punish criminal behavior in New York schools. "If this kind of behavior were happening in any adult workplace in America, there would be zero tolerance. Yet our public school children are defenseless," he writes.

breitbart.com

July 31, 2012

Rick Perry's Illegal Raid On A Mormon Sect

by Wayne Barrett

The Texas governor's campaign just rejected a call from Mitt Romney to "repudiate" the remarks of a pastor who described Romney's Mormon faith as a "cult."

We may have forgotten, however, that it was Rick Perry who was behind the raid that put these women there in the first place-a massive seizure of the Warren Jeffs-led fundamentalist Yearning for Zion Ranch, led by the state's Child Protective Services, that put 468 children in protective custody (though 29 of them would turn out to be over 18).

thedailybeast.com

October 11, 2011

Record numbers of foster kids leave program as adults

by Wendy Koch

A record number of teens are leaving the foster care system without a family to help them, and many fail to make it on their own, says a report being released today.

The number who leave the system because they turn 18 increased 41% to 24,407 between 1998 and 2005. The spike occurred despite a drop in the number of children in foster care, according to government figures in the report.

USA Today

July 3, 2007

Study: Troubled homes better than foster care

by Wendy Koch

Children whose families are investigated for abuse or neglect are likely to do better in life if they stay with their families than if they go into foster care, according to a pioneering study.

Doyle says his research, which tracked at least 15,000 kids from 1990 to 2002, is the largest study to look at the effects of foster care. He studied kids in Illinois because of a database there that links abuse investigations to other government records.

USA Today

July 3, 2007