child abuse
Inter-country Adoption: Steep Declines in International Adoptions by U.S. Parents Reflect Mixed Record
November 18, 2011 - 12:28pm (Print)
For many committed to intercountry adoption, it is unfortunate that since the year 2004 the practice has declined more than 50%. An important question is: what is happening? The answer is complex. To begin with, the unfortunate reality is that intercountry adoption has a mixed history.
"Biblical" Child Abuse: Authors of Child Discipline Book Interviewed on CNN
In this video, CNN interviews Michael and Debi Pearl, whose book To Train Up a Child, counsels "painful spanking" as discipline for children.
A Catholic Bishop Is Indicted in Child Pornography and Again I Ask: Why Does Congress Kowtow to the USCCB?
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
October 16, 2011 - 8:09pm (Print)
Almost exactly two years ago, during the heat of the health reform debate, I wrote an article asking why the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has so much power in the halls of Congress, especially when it comes to pushing for policies that deny women their rights. Today, I ask again: Why?
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Catholics Still Waiting for Justice in Sex Abuse Scandal
by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check
June 24, 2011 - 1:21pm (Print)
There may have been an official change in policy regarding clergy sex abuse, but practice and culture appear to be lagging. In practice, the leadership of the Catholic Church has plenty of tolerance for the sexual abuse of children.
HuffPo's Divorce Section: No Room for Reason on Domestic Violence?
by Joan Dawson
November 17, 2010 - 8:21am (Print)
HuffPo's new divorce section features articles by an author whose work is widely rejected by professionals in the medical, psychological and domestic violence communities. Why do they censor comments on his posts?
Paying Drug-Addicted Women To Get Sterilized: Choice or Coercion?
by Amie Newman
November 3, 2010 - 8:33am (Print)
Project Prevention pays low-income, drug-addicted women to get sterilized or use a long-term form of contraception. Is it coercion or simply "reproductive choice?"
Does Refusing a C-Section = Child Abuse?
by Amie Newman
August 13, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)
A woman comes into a hospital, in labor, refuses to pre-consent to a c-section, and has her baby whisked away under charges of child neglect?
Catholic Church Fights Connecticut Law Repealing Statute of Limitations on Child Sexual Abuse
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
April 15, 2010 - 1:17pm (Print)
Roman Catholic Bishops in Connecticut are fighting a bill aimed at rescinding the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse. Yep. You read that right.
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Twelve-Year-Old Child Dies Three Days After Marriage
by Amie Newman
April 9, 2010 - 3:35pm (Print)
A 12-year-old Yemeni girl is forced to marry and bleeds to death following sexual intercourse, three days later.
The Toll of Foster Care
by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check
September 23, 2009 - 10:37am (Print)
Carrying the burden of childhood abuse and neglect, these girls and women present a greater, specific challenge to those who work to prevent teen pregnancy.
