Are We Over-Drugging Our Kids?

Are We Over-Drugging Our Kids? - The Tom Hitchens Community:

The band-aide approach to making kids seen but not heard, right?

 BY JULIE FIDLER (naturalsociety.com) – A new report by the Centers for Disease Control explains, at least partly, why the numbers of children being diagnosed with ADHD have skyrocketed in recent years: many of these youngsters (1 in 5, actually) have been improperly diagnosed.

The number of children diagnosed with ADHD jumped 42% from 2004 to 2011. As of 2011, an astonishing 6.4 million tykes were diagnosed with the disorder and placed in therapy, fed powerful mind-altering drugs, or both.

Adoptive parents of abused child rap DCF

Adoptive parents of abused child rap DCF - News - telegram.com - Worcester, MA:

More than 10 years after Haleigh Poutre was beaten into a coma, the Department of Children and Families is still making the same mistakes that led to her near death, including not following a law created in light of the case to have a clinical review team review cases after multiple allegations of abuse.

The New Child Abuse Panic

The New Child Abuse Panic - The New York Times:

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — FEW things are tougher for a parent than dealing with a child’s serious medical condition, particularly if it is complicated and hard to diagnose. The parent has to make hard choices about treatment, navigating conflicting advice from doctors or even rejecting one doctor’s opinion and seeking another. Recently, the situation of these parents has gotten even harder. Some doctors and hospitals have begun to level a radical new charge — “medical child abuse” — against parents who, they say, get unnecessary or excessive treatment for their kids. That this care is usually ordered by other doctors hasn’t protected parents from these loaded accusations.

Child welfare officials had contact with girl before death

Child welfare officials had contact with girl before death - Washington Times:

PHOENIX (AP) - State child welfare officials say they investigated reports that a 2-year-old Phoenix girl had been abused more than a month before she was found dead.

State says agency placed 9-year-old boy in home with 'several' infractions

State says agency placed 9-year-old boy in home with 'several' infractions | MLive.com:

BURTON, MI - A state investigation says that the Burton agency responsible for 9-year-old Omarion Humphrey, who drowned after wandering away at Lake Callis park July 4, placed him in a home that had several infractions including lack of supervision.

Texas couple's ordeal exposes El Salvador's little-known infant trafficking market

Texas couple's ordeal exposes El Salvador's little-known infant trafficking market | Fox News Latino:

The couple that accused an obstetrician at the private Centro Ginecologico hospital in San Salvador with swapping their child at birth in order to sell the infant exposed a little-known form of human trafficking.

New Haven woman arrested for threatening DCF employee

New Haven woman arrested for threatening DCF employee | WTNH Connecticut News:

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A woman has been arrested after police say she threatened to “blow up” the DCF building on Thursday.