10-Year-Old Girl Commits Suicide After Intense Bullying | Care2 Causes:
Just yesterday I wrote about a 10-year-old girl in Mexico who became a mother far too young.
Now today, I sadly have another tragedy to report about another girl far too young to endure so much.
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Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Ohio Child Died in Foster Care Despite Dad’s Warnings
Ohio Child Died in Foster Care Despite Dad’s Warnings « Fathers & Families:
Is this another case in which the preference of child welfare agencies for foster care over father care (Youngstown News, 11/8/11)? It looks like it to me.
Is this another case in which the preference of child welfare agencies for foster care over father care (Youngstown News, 11/8/11)? It looks like it to me.
Toddler Beaten To Death Because He Wouldn't Stop Crying
Toddler Beaten To Death Because He Wouldn't Stop Crying | Care2 Causes:
Missouri mom Shelby Dasher, 20, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of her 13 month old son Tyler Dasher. Dasher originally claimed her son had been abducted, telling police he was missing when she woke up in the morning. People walking their dog found his body later that day near a cemetery around a mile from their home. Dasher was arrested and later confessed that she beat him repeatedly because he wouldn’t stop crying, wouldn’t lay down, and wouldn’t go back to sleep.
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Missouri mom Shelby Dasher, 20, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of her 13 month old son Tyler Dasher. Dasher originally claimed her son had been abducted, telling police he was missing when she woke up in the morning. People walking their dog found his body later that day near a cemetery around a mile from their home. Dasher was arrested and later confessed that she beat him repeatedly because he wouldn’t stop crying, wouldn’t lay down, and wouldn’t go back to sleep.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Last faith agency opposed to civil union adoptions out of foster care
Evangelicals, Catholics out of Illinois foster care - chicagotribune.com:
All religious agencies that declined to accommodate Illinois' civil union law and refused to license same-sex couples as prospective foster parents no longer provide publicly funded foster care.
All religious agencies that declined to accommodate Illinois' civil union law and refused to license same-sex couples as prospective foster parents no longer provide publicly funded foster care.
ICE policies leave overburdened foster-care system in their wake
ICE policies leave overburdened foster-care system in their wake - News and Politics - San Antonio Current:
A sustained federal crackdown made 2011 a banner year for deportations. A record 397,000 undocumented immigrants were sent packing. And while the Obama administration cheers that more than half of those deported were convicted of crimes, advocates warn of a troubling by-product of rising immigration enforcement: children left behind as natural-born citizens absorbed by the foster-care system.
A sustained federal crackdown made 2011 a banner year for deportations. A record 397,000 undocumented immigrants were sent packing. And while the Obama administration cheers that more than half of those deported were convicted of crimes, advocates warn of a troubling by-product of rising immigration enforcement: children left behind as natural-born citizens absorbed by the foster-care system.
Lawsuit over care of Oklahoma foster children will retain its class-action status
Lawsuit over care of Oklahoma foster children will retain its class-action status | The Republic:
TULSA, Okla. — A federal judge will allow a lawsuit against the Oklahoma Department of Human Services over the treatment of foster children in its care to retain class-action status.
U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell on Tuesday rejected a motion by the state agency to appeal a decision to certify the lawsuit as a class action.
TULSA, Okla. — A federal judge will allow a lawsuit against the Oklahoma Department of Human Services over the treatment of foster children in its care to retain class-action status.
U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell on Tuesday rejected a motion by the state agency to appeal a decision to certify the lawsuit as a class action.
Foster Care Class Action Not Upset by Wal-Mart
Courthouse News Service:
(CN) - Disbanding the class of women suing Wal-Mart has no bearing on the future of allegations that the Massachusetts foster care system placed thousands of children in life-threatening situations, a federal judge ruled.
(CN) - Disbanding the class of women suing Wal-Mart has no bearing on the future of allegations that the Massachusetts foster care system placed thousands of children in life-threatening situations, a federal judge ruled.
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