C A P T A

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA).

CAPTA -  MONDALE ACT -  CHILD ABUSE FOR PROFIT BUSINESS IN AMERICA

On January 31st, 1974, President Nixon signed Public Law 93-247, The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA). This act ostensibly addressed a growing awareness of the problem of child abuse (ranked by some polls as one of the three most pressing national problems in the early '70s). It resulted in effects more far-reaching and consequences more devastating than the designers could have imagined.

THREE ARTICLES ABOUT CAPTA

TWENTY YEARS OF CAPTA

The background, limitations and results of federal and state child abuse legislation

By Damon Coffman

Proposed Revision of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act - CAPTA
By Richard A. Gardner

"The monster stalking Americans is CAPTA, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974."
Paul Craig Roberts, Washington Times

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