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October 3, 2025
The Link Between Maternal Drug Use and Rising Infant Mortality
Mississippi has just declared a public health emergency involving an alarming rise in infant mortality rates. Between 2023 and 2024, deaths of children under age one rose to 9.7 per…
June 20, 2025
What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis
Starting this fall students in New York will join those in other states like California in not being able to access cellphones during the day. These bans are the culmination…
April 3, 2025
The dangerous myth that poverty is the cause of child abuse
Why does child abuse happen? A new public service announcement says most people think it’s a “bad parent problem,” but the ad suggests “the root causes may be different than you think.”…
April 1, 2025
Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani’s Dangerous Radicalism on Child Welfare
Socialist state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani has made a splash in the race for New York City mayor. A relentless social media campaign has helped him raise big dollars, despite his long-shot odds against incumbent…
April 1, 2025
Did Maltreatment Fatalities in Texas Really Decline?
A drop in the number of children entering foster care and fatalities due to abuse in Texas is, on its face, welcome news, and some stakeholders in the well-being of…
February 22, 2025
Why Long Island Is Hoping Former Cops Will Become Child Protective Services Workers
“It’s incumbent upon us to make sure these children are safe,” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said at a press conference recently. “That’s job No. 1.” Blakeman launched a program in 2023…
January 23, 2025
The Effects of Child Neglect Can Be As Harmful As Child Abuse
When Rob Henderson was growing up, he scored only 86 out of a possible 140 points on a verbal IQ test. His teachers thought he might have some kind of…
January 8, 2025
Child Abuse Is Child Abuse, Regardless of the Circumstances
Two months ago, Wendell James Snell, age 42, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for the sexual abuse of three children under the age of 12 on the…
January 5, 2025
Racine Case Tragically Exposes Gaps in Wisconsin’s Protection of Kids from Abuse
In February 2021, residents of Racine learned that 17-year-old Shavale J. Powell was facing homicide charges in the death of his 1-month-old son. The child suffered blunt force trauma to the head, chest…
December 19, 2024
How Child Protective Services Have Failed Children
In October, Nyisha Ragsdale, the maternal aunt of four-year-old Jahmeik Modlin, filed a lawsuit against the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), claiming that the city could have saved her…