June 14, 2013
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled this week that authorities can seek custody of a child, even where there's no evidence of abuse or neglect.
June 13, 2013
New Jersey child welfare authorities want the authority to disclose less information about their involvement in cases that end in the death or near-death of a child.
June 13, 2013
Neglected and emotionally abused preschool children show a range of serious emotional and behavioral difficulties and adverse mother-child interactions that suggest prompt evaluation and interventions, according to recent study findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.
May 5, 2013
A state Senate bill aims to teach foster children about pregnancy prevention and help those who do get pregnant. But it's only a first step.
June 10, 2013
FRANKFORT — The state will have to show at a hearing in the next two months why it removed information from social worker case files about children who have been killed or nearly killed as a result of abuse and neglect.
June 10, 2013
Latest research on Child Abuse finds government preoccupied with monitoring and reporting but neglectful in finding solutions to the issue.
June 10, 2013
U.S. panel couldn't make recommendations about kids without obvious signs of maltreatment
June 4, 2013
California youth who have spent time in foster care are less likely than their peers with other disadvantages to complete high school, enroll in college, and persist to a second year of college, according to a Stuart Foundation report written by researchers at RTI International, the Center for Social Services Research, and the Institute for Evidence-Based Change.
June 1, 2013
Different forms of childhood abuse increase the risk for mental illness as well as sexual dysfunction in adulthood, but little has been known about how that happens. An international team of researchers, including the Miller School's Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D., Leonard M. Miller Professor and Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has discovered a neural basis for this association.
June 1, 2013
NEW YORK -- http://vimeo.com/67368872. When Cordale Manning came to live with Elaine and Lee Fair at age 17, he was on his fourth foster home in as many years. The Fairs had a simple philosophy: as soon as a child entered their home, he or she became family. After countless family dinners, long conversations and moments of shared laughter, Manning started to believe them. However, a small voice still nagged in his mind. He worried that at 21, the age of independence, the Fairs would let him go and he would be alone.