Sixth Circuit Stays Preliminary Injunction Against Tennessee Law Limiting Gender-Affirming Treatments for Minors
A divided panel concludes the plaintiffs are unlikely to prevail on the merits and pledges to expedite the appeal.
A divided panel concludes the plaintiffs are unlikely to prevail on the merits and pledges to expedite the appeal.
"Nobody is abducting 1- and 4-year-old kids into sex trafficking," says the director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center.
New reasonable childhood independence laws in these states will make it easier for parents to let children enjoy the holiday.
While intended to keep Native families together, the ICWA subjects American Indian children to a lower level of protection than is enjoyed by non-Native kids.
"[T]he Does cannot wield the constitutional right to parent as a sword to require the district to adopt policies that help them to direct and control their son's choices," and likewise as to the right to free exercise of religion.
In the U.S., we arrest parents who let their 8-year-olds walk half a mile.
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"I don't know this kid, I don't know his mom, I don't know where he lives," she said in a viral video.
Parents of disabled children say the schools filed false neglect reports against them.
"All I've been able to see for a little while was this trial," says Amy Lovato.
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A bill advancing the New York State Assembly would require child welfare agents to inform parents of their legal rights when beginning an investigation of child abuse or neglect.
"Parents have told me that once their children learn to swim they have more confidence and self-esteem," says Joseph Brier, a swim instructor.
"[W]e find no error by the trial court in finding that Father had mentally abused N. The circuit court concluded that N. was 'frightened,' 'scared,' and 'fearful' of his Father's anger and his Father's refusal to accept his sexual orientation."
The state legislature passed a law to limit anonymous reports to its child abuse hotline.
A new report calls for policy makers to take action when none is required.
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A new report finds that "most children benefit from some degree of independence by the time they are 5–6 years old."
While city policy dictates that 911 calls should only occur when a student poses a genuine safety threat, parents say it's become a run-of-the-mill disciplinary tactic.
Even though a family pediatrician said she had "zero concerns," child welfare services still seized Josh Sabey's and Sarah Perkins' two young children. It took four months for the couple to regain custody.
Such family court decisions are generally reviewed with great deference; the court isn't saying the judge's decision is necessarily the correct one, just that it's not clearly incorrect.
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He was hospitalized multiple times for diabetes while in state custody.
Her podcast Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children delves into abuse at a state-run institution.
The social worker had reported the parents for educational neglect; the parents argue this was knowingly false, because the social worker knew the parents "were in compliance with their statutory obligation to educate their child" by home schooling.
"These things are just so inexcusable," a judge said. "It's hard to understand."
The Appellate Court of Maryland just upheld the lower court's finding, and related protective order.
"We are here because one preschooler pulled down another preschooler's pants," says defense attorney Jason Flores-Williams.
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The charge is the crime of illegal kidnapping and deportation of Ukrainian children.
"Then my baby started crying so I reached for my son, and as I'm reaching, a man held me and told me, 'Don't touch him. He's getting taken away from you,'" said the children's mother.
In just two weeks, he has learned to hunt and survive. There's a lesson there.
He did "what any dad would—he went to hug his crying kid," says former town councilman Keith Kaplan.
Yes, even children should have access to an attorney.
When society criminalizes outdoor independence, it makes smart phone addiction more likely.
Let Augustus Gloop be fat.
When COVID-19 and the U.S. government stopped kids from seeing each other, social media was their lifeline.
According to the suit, the officer "acted with malice or in reckless disregard of Jane Doe's federally protected rights."
Normal human interaction should not automatically be considered creepy or criminal.
"When you have technology designed by humans, the bias is going to show up in the algorithms," said one former child welfare worker.
"I have never felt threatened by a single person in this town until meeting those officers and the social worker."
"Sometimes I even feel like they wanted me in there, because I was in there so long," said one 18-year-old who was wrongfully incarcerated for 166 days.
"They couldn't keep him alive for two weeks," says the boy's father. "That's absolutely insane."
The social changes that paved the way for gay and trans acceptance have made pedophile acceptance less likely, not more.