July 18, 2013
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — For health professionals, the message from a new study in the American Journal of Public Health is clear: Asking patients about a history of childhood abuse can directly help assess their risk of attempting suicide. The evidence, authors say, shows that childhood abuse can have life-and-death consequences for the rest of a person's life.
July 15, 2013
Children who were punished with pushing or hitting, independent of severe child abuse, may have increased odds for developing adult CVD, arthritis and obesity, according to researchers.
July 13, 2013
DURING the Great Recession, child abuse and neglect appeared to decline. Incidents reported to local authorities dropped. “The doom-and-gloom predictions haven't come true,” Richard Gelles, a child-welfare expert at the University of Pennsylvania, told The Associated Press in 2011.
July 1-, 2013
Children's advocates are welcoming a new report showing a sharp drop in the number of foster youth in California, but also caution that less isn't necessarily a sign of improvement. This is especially the case in education, where most schools still have not figured out how to help foster youth succeed academically.
July 8, 2013
Investigators don't properly consider past history, such as parents' criminal records, when looking into allegations of child abuse and neglect in Riverside County, according to a grand jury report.
July 1, 2013
What does transparency and child safety have to do with one another? Everything, when it comes to the state agency charged with protecting the well-being of children.
July 1, 2013
Childhood maltreatment costs Medicaid an additional $2,600 per year per victim, finds a new study.
June 19, 2013
SALEM -- Few first-time lobbyists receive unanimous support for their bill, but a group of current and former foster children won that distinction Wednesday when the House unanimously approved the Oregon Foster Children's Bill of Rights.
June 18, 2013
California has become the first state in the nation to make school systems accountable for foster children's educational outcomes.
June 14, 2013
NEWARK, NJ - The state is attempting to further limit the information that can be released to the public and the media when a child dies or nearly dies due to abuse or neglect, under proposed changes to state rules.