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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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• 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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• 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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• OH: Not One But Two Parents Charged With Felony Custodial Interference

  Published: September 19, 2007, 11:20 pm

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

  Sadly, we have grown accustomed to hearing of one parent’s abduction of children from the other parent. But recently there was a different kind of parental abduction in Ohio. A woman allegedly abducted her own four children - together with her husband, the children’s father. How is that abduction? A local court reportedly awarded

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• KY: Parental Rights Should Not Be Terminated Solely Because of Parent’s Youth and Immaturity Without Regard to Parenting Capability and Potential

  Published: September 25, 2007, 12:02 am

  Tags: Child Custody, Juvenile Delinquency Dependency

  A Kentucky appellate court has reversed the termination of a teen parent’s parental rights because the ruling was based on the parent’s age and immaturity, rather than her parenting skills and capabilities. In this case, the teen mother voluntarily placed herself and her child into foster care in 2003. She never abused or neglected

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• TN Judge Reprimanded for Disregarding Appellate Court’s Order and Upholding Custody Award to Allegedly Abusive Father

  Published: October 10, 2007, 12:00 am

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

  One occupational hazard attorneys face is not-quite-ranting calls from (or appointments with) people who believe, rightly or wrongly, that they - or, worse, their kids - have been unfairly “beaten up” by the legal system, when they were represented by another attorney - or no attorney. Those folks often have a lot in common with this

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