Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, Strong Communities for Children is a universal community-wide approach to prevention of child maltreatment. It is intended to change community norms—to facilitate inf
If you feel that you or your minor children are in immediate danger, ask for an EPO, a temporary emergency order that a judge will grant even without talking to the abuser. The EPO orders the abuser not to harm or threaten you or your child. If the abuser violates this order, you can...
The U.S. Department of State has created these additional steps in their child's passport issuance policy in an effort to combat child abduction and trafficking. Guaranteeing the safety of children is clearly a worthy goal, but it still means a more complicated road for minor applicants. To m...
Later we sat down with him and explained that he didn’t have to like what we’d decided and that it was okay to be angry with us, but it was not okay to show that kind of behavior. This was a painful incident for all of us, but we made sure not to get pulled into ...
If you’re struggling to care for yourself, it may be difficult to care for the children within your custody. Medically complex and special needs children in particular may require a higher level of caretaking that can more easily cause exhaustion and burnout. In some states, respite care is...
• “There is less than a 3% chance for children who have aged out of foster care to earn a college degree at any point in their life.” • “Seven out of 10 girls who age out of the foster care system ...
For example, he added, if the reason your offspring are living at home is student debt, the parents can put the rent toward paying it. Or, if appropriate, the rent could be used to create an emergency reserve fund. “I would advise doing this surreptitiously,” Kinney said, “while they...
If a couple decides that divorce is the only way to go, a bitter battle over child custody is likely to follow. While both parents will forever be guardians to the children, only one (in most cases)
If the parents refuse to transfer legal custody of their children to a grandparent on a voluntary basis, the grandparent seeking guardianship will need to pursue the matter legally. Before filing for guardianship, it’s a good idea to spend some time gathering evidence and conducting research to...
relieved to find out that German would take on their story. "He did something, and he fought for us," Goodwin said. "And he is 100 percent our hero."They could have never imagined that just five months after meeting him, their hero would be dead.THE ASSASSINATION OF JEFF GERM...