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Feminist bunk will cause society's collapse

A compromising end to the smacking debate? Was the Lester amendment necessary?
By Kay Ma

 

Sir Humphrey's blogg
Nordic Committee for Human Rights Today

 

Temporary Brittle Bone Disease - Bone diseases that lead to false allegations of non-accidental injury

By Colin S. Paterson


The Effects of the Swedish Anti-Smacking Law - Consultation Paper

Rhema Broadcasting Radio Interview June 14, 2005 with Ruby Harrold-Claesson

Father's Rights Demonstration
Spiderman Strikes in Sweden

 

"Batman" triggers royal security review
By Jeremy Lovell


Child welfare is "buying and selling of babies"
The Carline VandenElsen Case


Child-Welfare Reform and the Role of Privatization
By Lisa Snell


The Overrepresentation of Minorities in the Child Welfare System
By Lance Carroll II


Pressure mounts to get neglected kids back home or adopted
Failure to meet timetable could cost the state $1.4 million
By Mary Zahn


APA Study Says "Who Needs Dad?"

 

News Talk ZB interview June 15, 2005 with Ruby Harrold-Claesson

 
Appeal court clears mother of killing children

By Robert Verkaik

Children Missing Contact with Both Biological Parents at Risk
PRWeb article

 

Committee on Rights of Child considers third periodic report of Sweden
January 2005

 

Social Worker 'Claimed He Worked 28-Hour Day'
News article in The Scotsman

 

Federal incentives exist to make children fatherless
By Phyllis Schlafly

 

Former Caregiver Charged With Murdering Rilya Wilson
Woman Faces Murder, Kidnapping, Child Abuse Charges

 

A tribute to Pamela Gaston

 

The Troy Anderson Reports
A series of articles on foster care published September 2003 - October 2004

 

McGuinty Government Moves To Make Ontario's Child Advocate Independent

 

Confiscating children: When parents become victims
By Ruby Harrold-Claesson

 

Understanding and Collaboratively Treating Parental Alienation Syndrome
By Kenneth H. Waldron and David E. Joanis

 

The Detrimental Effects on Women of the Gender Egalitarianism of Child-Custody Dispute Resolution Guidelines
By Richard A. Gardner

 

Losing touch
By Josie Appleton

 

The Trip to Nowhere. Family Policy in the Swedish Welfare State Analysed by Means of Comparative Law Method Immanent in the European Convention on Human Rights
By Jacob W. F. Sundberg

 

Foster Care Crisis: Let The Numbers Speak
By Sharon Secor

 

Ruby Harrold-Claesson's lecture at the Families in Care, Conference for the Millennium, Newcastle, October 6, 2000

 

Foster home and adoptive home abuse cases
A series of articles published in various media.

 

10M Kids In Slave-Like Labor
Associated Press

 

Dissenting opinion in public care case
Verdict delivered on February 1, 2005

 

Legacy of slavery today

By Don Mathis

 

Smack of the Nanny State?
By James Kay

 

The drugging of our children

By Gary Null

 

PAS - The Lohstroh Case
A series of articles published in different media

 

Custody Disputes Fueling "Parental Alienation Syndrome"
By Richard A. Gardner

 

Hospital ordered to pay $1.2M

 

New warning label ordered for antidepressants
Children and teens at increased risk for suicide, says FDA

The Associated Press

 

Foster Kids on Mind-Altering Drugs?
 By: Mandi Bishop

 

Does DSM-IV Have Equivalents for the Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) Diagnosis?
By 
Richard A. Gardner. M.D.

 

Loving them to death
By Jon Krakauer

 

State slips put teens on street
By Michelle Roberts

 

Social services agency probed
By Curtis Krueger

 

Illinois court clarifies standard for removing children
BY Christopher Wills

 

Priest fights C.S.S. over abuse of power that put him through hell
By Dave Brown

 

Children Bill Update
By Norman Wells

 

Head to head: Smacking
BBC News

 

Santa Clara County foster kids may go to relatives in Mexico
By Edwin Garcia

 

Sweden and The BBC
FYC News article

 

Why smacking should not be banned
By Norman Wells

 

Sweden's smacking ban: more harm than good
By Robert E Larzelere

 

Lost without trace: the families who were torn apart on a whim
By Kate Foster

 

Prof Southall accepts misconduct verdict

By Dave Blackhurst

 

GMC decision on Southall is challenged as "unduly lenient"
By Clare Dyer

 

Doctors 'wanted boy to die'
By Lois Rogers and Sarah-Kate Templeton

 

Bestseller helps parents fight accusations of child abuse
By
Matthew Chapman

 

Child-custody case intrigues Finns
By Davrell Roberts Tien


SHUT UP AND TAKE YOUR DRUGS
By Mary Starrett


The Creation of Psychiatric Ill-health
By Håkan Eriksson


 Forced mental screening hits roadblock in House
Rep. Ron Paul seeks to yank program, decries use of drugs on children
By Ron Strom


Case of wrongful removal caught on tape typifies nationwide TakeTheChildAndRun mentality, Child Advocacy Group says

 

Child-welfare system 'really broken'
A series of articles about child protection in the USA

 

Coalition of Parents Unite in Nationwide Class Action Challenges for Their Children

 

Handcuffing in USA schools
Two articles

 

Family members protest DCS
Protesters say courts and the agency aren't listening to parents, grandparents of estranged children
By Cecilia Potts
 

 

The Rilya Wilson Case. Miami, Florida
5-year old girl disappeared from foster home for more than one year without the social services missing her.
A series of articles published on AP and CNN.com

 

Women who cared for still-missing Florida girl are charged with abusing her before she disappeared
By Catherine Wilson

 

Parents lack savvy lawyers dependency court: those trying to regain custody of children often are represented by inexperienced attorneys.
By Howard Mintz

 

Judge 'Case of missing girl absolutely despicable'

 

7 Texas kids found in Nigeria Orphanage

 

Social Workers Meet Counter Protest at State House
Mass News

 

Child abuse case parents tell of 17 years of anguish
Censured paediatrician faces further hearings over claims infants were taken from families because of his 'overzealous beliefs'
By
Sandra Laville

 

State foster care system needs major reform
By Greg Coler

 

Lawmakers to hold hearing in Memphis to air DCS concerns
wmctv.com staff

 

Safe and sound
By Rachel Blustain

 

Father upset with foster service over near-drowning of son
Mother victim of postpartum depression

 

Human Rights in Norway - as Low as they can Go
By Marianne Haslev Skånland

 

Resistance against oppression.
Remembrance celebrations of the attack against Hitler, July 20 1944

 

Labor laws and personal beliefs collide
By Lisa Heyamoto

 

Suicide rate linked to custody issues, Parental Grief Syndrome
Letter to US Attorney General by Robert Palumbo

 

Norwegian mother and children detained in Spain
The NCHR's letter to the Prime Minister of Spain

 

'Length of time spent at nursery increases risk of poor behaviour'
By Patrick Sawer

 

Could your kids be given to 'gay' parents?
By Stephen Baskerville

 

IRAQ: Norway reacts to torture of children

 

Parents go public to get child back
CNN.com

 

Portland Archdiocese to File Chapter 11. Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., to File for Bankruptcy Over Costs of Clergy Sex Abuse Suits
The Associated Press

 

Court: Family of murdered foster child can't sue DCF
Associated Press

 

Foster child's death treated as accident
By Natalie Pona

 

Teen found in trash can was foster child
Associated Press

 

Teen found dead in trash lived in nearby foster home
By Jeremy Kohler

 

Fostering his image
By Brad Schmitt

 

Ex-governor touted kids as secret brewed
By Laura Oppenheimer and Alex Pulaski

 

Grand jury reports blast family aid, jail agencies
By Putsata Reang

 

Ex-caseworker speaks out for children: 'I said...they're killing children'
By Jane Hansen

 

Girl starved by foster parents - The Lori and Tommy Allain case
A series of articles in various American media, June 19 - 30, 2004

 

A critical look at the Child Welfare System Reunification Plans
Reunification Plans Recipes for failure
By Rick Thoma

 

The State is the child abuser - Victimized families testify at Oregon DHS budget hearing
By Susan Detlefsen

 

How much are your children worth to Oregon's "child welfare" industry?
Oregon Family Rights 2003 Child Welfare Report

 

Social worker faces child porn charges
By:Ariel Zangla

 

Pedophilia trial fiasco leaves France stunned
By Craig S. Smith

 

Children in care missing out on education
Article in The Guardian

 

Experts in the dock
By John Carvel

 

Lawyers warned about becoming defendants
By Gail Appleson

 

Legal system failing fathers, judge says
By Sarah Womack and Yolanda Copes-Stepney

 

'Too stupid' parents to get children back
By Hanna Cleaver

 

Psychology skeptics say 'prove it'

By Erica Goode

 

Pia Degemark - You always get another chance

By Pia Lundgren. Translation: Mark Rowlands

 

Historian reveals tragedy of Swiss child trade
By Renat Künzi. Translation: Vanessa Mock

 

'No one could help me escape'
By Kim Wilsher

 

Re: Polly Toynbee's article "If this came flat-packed..."

By Mark Rowlands

 

The Helene Lufuma Case
By Helena Lufuma

 

Child Protection - Justice for Parents
This transcript was typed from a recording and not copied from an original script. There is therefore the risk of mishearing and the difficulty in some cases of identifying individual speakers.

 

Family Courts: File on Four this week examines Britain's Family Court System

 

Bizarre family battle - Mother fights for return of daughter
By Kirsty Joosen and Nadia Miraudo

 

'Missing' - A transcript of an Australian Broadcasting Corporation documentary
By Kirsten Garrett

 

State running background checks on new parents
Associated Press

 

Programs helping parents navigate early childhood
Coaches give tips so kids get a fast start
By Wendy Wendland-Bowyer

 

Abuse cases doctors face probe
The cases of the sex abuse expert and the cot death expert

 

Panel on foster schools?
Rate of student graduation from nonpublic facilities low
By Troy Anderson

 

State moves to close Fla. Adoption agency
Breaking News, US

 

Cot death review may overturn thousands of care orders
By Robert Verkaik

 

Global experts slam cot death policy
BBC News

 

Wider cot deaths review considered
BBC News

 

Statement on Professor Sir Samuel Roy Meadow 

 

Expert in baby death cases charged with misconduct
By Celia Hall

 

'We can't reunite thousands of mothers with children wrongly taken from them'
By Melissa Kite

 

Desperately seeking justice
By David Cohen

 

What is Munchausen syndrome by proxy?  John Sweeney finds out more.
 BBC R4- Today programme  January 13, 2004  

 

The child with unexplained fractures
By Colin Paterson

 

BBC PROGRAM SERIES PROBE COT DEATHS
A series of programs and articles on British Broadcasting Corporation's web site, published in 2003

 

When 'Mommy' is 71, she needs support

Grandparents with custody share tales

By Sarah Jane Growe

 

Abused Kids's Neighbors. Wish They'd Acted

By GEOFF MULVIHILL

 

Parents tackle state laws on child protection
By Jill Krueger

 

Protection, Bias Pervade Child Protection System
By Isaac Peterson III

 

Child protection in need of a fix
By Caroline Milburn

 

JUDGES WHO BREAK THE LAW - JUDGES WHO STEAL
By Bill Sizemore

 

 “We Know You Hurt Your Kids".
Parents across the U.K. say that false child-abuse claims have destroyed their lives
By Aisha Labi

 

Alexandergate. The state child-abuse case that shook Sweden
By Martin Hongisto

 

How children are suffering harm by those with a duty to protect them
By Charles Pragnell

 

Twins stop breathing after jabs
Story from BBC NEWS

 

The appearance of fairness

Barbara Hewson, Dermot Casey and Nuala Mole

 

NAZI GERMANYUS CHILD PROTECTION
American Family Advocacy Center

 

Church in Boston Offers $55 Million for Abuse Claims
By Fox Butterfield

 

Corruption scandal shakes Brooklyn's court system
By TOM HAYS

 

Victims of child care errors win right to sue
By Clare Dyer

 

The rise and fall of a medical "expert"?

By Margaret Willaims

 

Professor's obsession with child deaths has robbed me of my little girl too

By David Cohen

 

Baby expert in the dock
By Grant Rollings

 

Parents 'are wrongly blamed over sudden child deaths'
By Hannah Start

 

Police Interrogation of Children Stirs Controversy in California
By Danielle Gillespie

 

Indictments ruled out in church probe. AG's office says Law, top aides won't be charged

By Ralph Ranalli and Walter V. Robinson

 

THE CHILDSNATCHER IN CHIEF;
This woman's new-born baby was seized on the say-so of the cot death expert who helped to jail Sally Clark unjustly. Hundreds more claim to be his victims. So how did Sir Roy Meadow come to wield such power?
By SUE REID

 

Mother is banned by law from caring for her infant son - lost a baby to cot

By SUE REID

 

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH. Pro-infanticide prof awarded ethics prize
Princeton's Peter Singer advocates killing disabled after birth
WorldNetDaily.com

 

Fostermother Charged with Dumping Girl

A series of articles

 

Family Protection Amendment
For Protection Of Families From State Abuse

 

California Finds 30000 Caregivers Arrested So Far This Year
The Associated Press 
 

 

Politician Arrested On Sex Charges Rep Jefferson Davis Accused Of Assaulting Foster Child
By DAVE ALTIMARI and COLIN POITRAS

 

Molestation Charges Dropped Against Judge
By Tom Harrigan

 

A Harmful Message?
New Book on Child Sex Sparks Uproar
By Bryan Robinson

 

NSPCC SHATTERS CHILD ABUSE MYTHS
By Angryharry

 

State agency's money woes leave adoptions in limbo
Payments to private groups for placing foster care kids stop
By Renee C. Lee
 

Mental Wards at New Jersey Hospitals Are Made to Double as Foster Homes
By RICHARD LEZIN JONES and LESLIE KAUFMAN
 

High court ruling invalidates child-molestation cases
Nation/Politics, The Washington Times
 

New Details on Failures in New Jersey Child Care
By RICHARD LEZIN JONES and LESLIE KAUFMAN 
 

Child Protection Questions
By Jennie Bristow  

NSPCC report: a picture of innocence?
By Stuart Waiton
  

Parental Alienation Syndrome: the secret killer of parent-child relationships
By Jeff Opperman
 


Repairing the child-parent relationship after traumatic separation, alienation
Parental Alienation Syndrome difficult, but possible, to overcome
By Jeff Opperman
 

Ritalin Debate: Some Experts Doubt Existence of ADHD
By Patrick Goodenough
 

Court Returns Adopted Boy to Birth Mom
News article in Guardian Unlimited

 

"Leave No Child Behind"

By Ruth F. Peterson

 

Making a parent dangerous. PAS in Sweden and Norway
By Lena Hellblom Sjögren

 

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK. Breast-feeding pix kiddie porn?
State takes away woman's children over 'sexual' photo
Article in WorldNetDaily.com
    


Putting power back in parental hands
Bill would bar teachers from forcing 'learning-disabled' kids to take drugs
By Kelly Patricia O'Meara

 

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS - U.S. still 'a nation at risk'
By Paul Sperry

 

New method helps parents regain parental authority

By Ruby Harrold-Claesson

 

In 2001 Statistics, Trenton Finds Abuse High in Foster Care
By Leslie Kaufman and Richard Lezin Jones