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International Child Protection News January 2017
KARA tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. This is only a sampling of what should be reported – the great...
View ArticleTennessee’s High Infant Death Rate
Of the 23 richest countries, the United States has the highest rate of infant mortality, according to the CIA World Fact Book. And in Shelby County, Tenn., which encompasses Memphis, the state health...
View ArticleSave Enormous Downstream Costs (Listen Carefully To David Strand’s Advice)
Compared to woeful neglect of the needs of young families in the US and Minnesota, this study revealed the success of preventative public policies that provide universal health care, universal...
View ArticleThe Worst State To Be A Child In America
If you live in a state where children are 8 times more likely to be incarcerated (Wyoming), 13 times more likely to die from abuse & neglect (Oklahoma), twice as likely to die in their first year,...
View ArticleChild Welfare Policies That U.S. Shun; A Note From David Strand (share this...
Other policies protecting children include prohibitions on trying children as adults in court, and targeting of children up to 12 in advertising. Also drug abuse is treated as a disease and not a...
View ArticleIs Minnesota Setting A “Great” Example For Dealing With Child Protection Issues?
With Governor Dayton's Task Force recommendations reported in today's Star Tribune article (Dayton's Task Force Agrees On Overhaul, Brandon Stahl), I am optimistic that this ("great" example) approach...
View ArticleAmerica’s Science Phobia Ravages Children
The facts of recent demographic studies are mind boggling. In 2008, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention shocked the nation with the news that fully a fourth of America’s teen girls now have...
View ArticleAnother Guardian ad-Litem Speaks (thank you David Strand)
Here is how civilized, non-superstitious nations fight problems afflicting their children. The citizens of these enlightened societies use government resources. Their governments are actually...
View ArticleOctober Sad Stories Part I
Drugging Our Kids: Governor signs bills to curb prescribing of psych drugs to California foster youth The Mercury News Joymara Coleman, a 24-year-old Cal State East Bay student, displays two of the...
View ArticleSnapshot of Child Abuse News Headlines August 2017 (thank you Eileen King &...
Woody Allen has never been charged with a sex crime. In the court of public opinion, however, a large segment long ago began viewing the famed director a deviant for two reasons. First, in 1992, his...
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