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• Kansas Graces Custodial Grandparents - Sort Of

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:40 pm

  Tags: Child Custody, Child Support, Juvenile Delinquency Or Dependency

  Kansas, which reportedly has a large and growing number of grandparents raising their grandchildren, passed a law intended to provide financial assistance to those grandparents. But it turns out that the statute is only aiding a tiny fraction of these grandparents (and only a tiny bit at that). The reason: as in other states, aid is limited to

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• Feds: State Courts Must Work Harder to Keep American Indian Families Together Despite Abandonment, Abuse or Neglect

  Published: July 20, 2007, 2:02 pm

  Tags: Child Custody, Juvenile Delinquency Or Dependency

  Children abandoned, abused or neglected. State steps in to protect them, typically by removing them from the home on at least a temporary basis. If suitable relatives are willing and available, the children will usually be temporarily placed with them over strangers. And then begins the process of assessing the weaknesses in the

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• Brooklyn Teenager Charged for Leaving Baby to Save Dinner, Since Baby Nearly Drowned

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:40 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Child Custody, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  The other legal process, juvenile dependency, is a civil process by which children are taken into protective custody and the court supervises reunification of the child with the parents, when and where appropriate. The goal is for the parents to improve their parenting skills and then be with their kids. The two processes are not mutually

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• Innovative Housing Community of Aging-Out Foster Kids and Kinship Families Pursues Dual Economic and Social Agenda

  Published: August 9, 2007, 11:35 pm

  Tags: Miscellaneous, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  Illinois is sponsoring an innovative housing program with a unique social mission. The complex puts so-called kinship families (for example, grandparents raising grandchildren) as neighbors to young people aging out of foster care. In addition to helping these two very different but often similarly economically disadvantaged groups with

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• Pastor accused of dragging girl behind his van

  Published: August 11, 2007, 5:03 pm

  Tags: Juvenile Boot Camps, Charles Flowers, Love Demonstrated Ministries

  A San Antonio pastor and an employee of his Christian boot camp were arrested Friday on aggravated assault charges, accused of dragging a girl behind a van after she failed to keep up during a running exercise.

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• Juvenile Baby Sitter Charged in Death of Baby - But Not Foster Mother

  Published: August 15, 2007, 12:34 am

  Tags: Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  Fourteen year old baby sitter allegedly throws three year old charge on bed for misbehavior. Baby later dies of head injury. This tragic situation is very disturbing, without knowing anything more. But there is more. This local Palm Beach County child and her two siblings (5 years old and nearly 2 years old) were actually in foster care,

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• Appeals Court Refuses to Block Inlaws from Pursuing Termination of Son’s Wife’s Parental Rights and Adoption by Parents of Son Mother Did Time for Killing

  Published: August 15, 2007, 10:48 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Child Custody, Adoption, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  Widowed Mother sentenced to jail. Mother gives temporary custody of her children to late minister-husband’s parents. Mother’s sentence is almost discharged. Husband’s parents move to terminate Mother’s parental rights and to adopt the children. The reason Mother was incarcerated was her conviction for killing her

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• Juvenile Yet Hilarious Headline Of The Day: A reader forwarded this from an NBC TV news ...

  Published: August 17, 2007, 12:25 pm

  Tags: Juvenile Yet Hilarious Headline Of The Day

  A reader forwarded this from an NBC TV news outlet in Baltimore: 3 Treated After Encounter With Rabid Beaver. [WBAL] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Pastor at Christian boot camp indicted on assault charge

  Published: August 18, 2007, 6:05 am

  Tags: Juvenile Boot Camps, Charles Flowers, Love Demonstrated Ministries

  The director of a Christian boot camp and an employee have been indicted on aggravated assault charges for allegedly dragging a 15-year-old girl behind a van after she fell behind the group during a morning run.

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• The Cult That Spawned the Tough-Love Teen Industry

  Published: August 20, 2007, 5:22 am

  Tags: Synanon, Juvenile Boot Camps

  The idea that punishment can be therapeutic is not unique to the Rotenberg Center. In fact, this notion is widespread among the hundreds of "emotional growth boarding schools," wilderness camps, and "tough love" antidrug programs that make up the billion-dollar teen residential treatment industry. No fewer than 50 programs (though not the

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• Indicted pastor, trainer draw support at rally

  Published: August 22, 2007, 5:39 am

  Tags: Juvenile Boot Camps, Charles Flowers, Love Demonstrated Ministries

  A a support rally was held for Pastor Charles E. Flowers of San Antonio's Faith Outreach Center and a Christian Boot Camp trainer, Stephanie Bassitt, both of whom have been indicted on one count each of aggravated assault.

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• More Reasons to Quit Smoking

  Published: August 25, 2007, 12:16 am

  Tags: Miscellaneous, Child Custody, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  New York City is contemplating banning smoking in a car in which there are minor children. If it passes, New York won’t be the first place with such a ban. Similar bans already exist in Arkansas, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Bangor, Me., and Rockland County, N.Y. Transgressions would subject the violator to potentially hefty fines. But that

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• Florida Court Asks New York Court to Unseal Adoption Records To Identify Victims in Criminal Abuse Case

  Published: August 25, 2007, 8:39 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Adoption, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  Woman adopts eleven children in New York City. Woman later moves to Florida. Woman raises children - with no education beyond fourth grade, no medical care, without adequate food, without normal social contact, without freedom. Why? She adopted the children to collect payments from New York City. Over a million dollars in fact. All of the

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• Three Year Old Goes from Protective Custody to Home - to Die Shortly Afterward

  Published: September 2, 2007, 2:24 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  A 3 year old child, previously taken into protective custody by the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), was released to his mother - only to die two months later. There was a court hearing on whether to release the little boy, but neither the boy’s non-lawyer advocate nor his caseworker attended. They weren’t aware of

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• Parental Alienation Expert Attacks Florida’s New Keeping Children Safe Act

  Published: September 9, 2007, 7:46 pm

  Tags: Domestic Violence Amp Abuse, Visitation, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  from the rest of the juvenile dependency statutes (formally, Proceedings Relating to Children). For example, reporters of any type of child abuse, not just sexual child abuse, are protected by anonymity. The legislative intent was to encourage witnesses and those with well-founded suspicions to come forward to protect children by

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