Category: General

  • What Is PTSD? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

    Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of a traumatic event. A traumatic event is a life-threatening event such as military combat, natural disasters, terrorist incidents, serious accidents, or physical or sexual assault in adult or childhood. Most survivors of trauma return to normal given a…

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  • On Jan. 22, 2003, FRONTLINE, in collaboration with Columbia University’s School of Social Work and its Institute for Child and Family Policy, convened two panels of national experts at Columbia’s Alfred Lerner Hall to talk about the child welfare system and, more specifically, foster care. FRONTLINE’s “Failure to Protect?: A National Dialogue” — co-produced with…

  • Impact of Domestic Violence on Children

    If this isn’t ever the truth! In the end it hurts the Children! Children absorb their environment even at ages so young they can’t talk yet. Domestic violence abusers often includes use the system as their weapon। of the time the abusers do this, they get away with it with the assistance of judicial officials…

  • Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

  • fundamental rights

    Where certain “fundamental rights” are involved, the Court has held that regulation limiting these rights may be justified only by a “compelling state interest,” Kramer v. Union Free School District, 395 U.S. 621, 627 (1969); Shapiro v. Thompson, 394 U.S. 618, 634 (1969), Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398, 406 (1963), and that legislative enactments…

  • family life is one of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

    …Several decisions of this Court make clear that freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life is one of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, 12; Griswold v. Connecticut, supra; Pierce v. Society of Sisters, supra; Meyer v. Nebraska, supra.…

  • consider addressing the rights and liberties of the family

    U.S. Supreme Court COOPER v. AARON, 358 U.S. 1 (1958) 358 U.S. 1 COOPER ET AL., MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, ET AL. v. AARON ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. Fn No. 1. Argued September 11, 1958.…

  • Government Advisers: Don’t Use Cold Medicines in Children Under 6

      Concentrated Tylenol Infants’ Drops Plus Cold & Cough, right, and Pedia Care Infant Drops Long-Acting Cough, left, is shown in a medicine cabinet of the home of Carol Uyeno in Palo Alto, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007. Cold Drug makers voluntarily pulled cold medicines targeted for babies and toddlers off the market Thursday, leaving…

  • Breaking The Silence – Childrens’ Stories

    Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories8 min 3 sec – Feb 9, 2006Average rating: (2 ratings)Description: This is an eight minute excerpt of the program that aired on Public Television in October of 2005. The documentary tells the stories of children who are taken away from their protective mothers. Want to see more cool videos?Go to…

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