Family Rights and Child Abuse News

NEVER Go to the Police for 'Help'

by William Grigg

... with a domestic problem, unless your intention is for potentially fatal harm to come to you or the relative with whom you're having trouble.

A 14-year-old girl from Tucumcari, New Mexico wound up in the hospital with a Taser dart embedded in her skull after her mother, Stacy Akin, took her to the police department because the two of them had been fighting, reports the Portales News-Tribune.

The LRC Blog

July 4, 2009

DeWine tries to transcend politics with foster care

by William Hershey

COLUMBUS - In Attorney General Mike DeWine's office, there's a 1997 photo of DeWine holding his daughter Anna, who was 5 at the time, at a White House bill-signing ceremony with President Bill Clinton.

The bill, sponsored by DeWine, then a U.S. senator, made clear that the best interests of a child must be No. 1 when deciding whether to leave a child in foster care or reunite a family. It's the kind of photo that fuels the fires of the Cedarville Republican's critics.

daytondailynews.com

December 17, 2011

DOJ seeks deportation of family persecuted in Germany for homeschooling

by William Jacobson

The Romeikes are devout Christians from Germany who wanted to homeschool their children because of what they perceived as the secularist agenda in German public schools.

In the United States, the right to homeschool ones' own children is accepted, although frequently mocked by the left. The homeschoool movement is thriving in the United States, but in Germany it is illegal, a holdover from Nazi-era law. The Romeikes fled to the United States in 2008 after they faced mounting fines and the potential of imprisonment.

powerlineblog.com

February 27, 2013

Child protection agency chief recommends changes

by Wilson Ring

The Agency of Human Services' acting secretary said Wednesday he wants to increase staffing levels and training at the Department for Children and Families following the deaths of two toddlers in state care but is not calling for a major overhaul.

In the long-awaited plan commissioned after the toddlers' deaths, Acting Secretary Harry Chen said he felt splitting the divisions of DCF devoted to child protection and economic services would weaken its ability to protect and support families.

benningtonbanner.com

October 2, 2014

Prison Nursery Programs a Growing Trend in Women's Prisons

by Women's Prison Association

The Women's Prison Association (WPA) has released the first-ever national report on prison nursery programs. The report examines the expansion of prison nursery programs across the U.S.

These programs allow incarcerated women to keep their newborns with them in prison for a finite period of time. The report finds that the number of prison-based nursery programs is growing, but that such programs are still relatively rare.

Corrections

July 13, 2009