Stop Abuse Campaign

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A new study from Columbia University should remind us of something history has consistently shown: the relationship between poverty and crime is far from predictable or consistent. Their fight-or-flight mechanism activates, and most people will fight for themselves and their loved ones when it comes to self-preservation. Melanie Blow.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Among the enormous harms of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is a dramatic escalation in the number of times children’s rights to their parents are terminated.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

I was self-employed and wondered if this hiatus would have an effect on my income and reputation. All I ask is that you keep our conversations here confidential, to respect other peoples’ privacy. I’ve had worsening fantasies of harming or killing myself and I haven’t been able to get rid of them. I’m self-employed,” I started.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. You can hear Joe Shapiro of NPR discuss his investigation on The Imprint podcast The interview starts at 16:40 in. That needs to stop."

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