by Kirby See there! A man born and we pronounce him fit for peace. There's a load lifted from his shoulders with the discovery of his disease. We'll take the child from him put it to the test teach it to be a wise man how to fool the rest. -Ian Anderson When talking to […]
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Daycare secretly drugs kids to help them sleep
Parents of an infant say she often seemed groggy after attending a church day care where some workers are accused of giving children an over-the-counter dietary supplement at nap time, their attorney said Wednesday. Attorney Alan Statman represents the parents, Joseph and Andrea Coleman, in a lawsuit the suburban Cincinnati couple filed against Covenant Apostolic […]
Good luck trying to succeed as a kid in America
If the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s most recent report had been an international comparison of test scores, the media would have gone berserk. Negativity certainly erupts when ODEC releases the results of their Programme for International Student Assessment test, since it generally shows U.S. students performing poorly compared with their peers in other […]
Official Hopes Prison Crisis May Spur Change
After a state task force delivered a withering indictment of New York’s juvenile prisons, the head of the agency responsible for the prisons reacted by going on a publicity blitz — not to challenge the findings, but to promote them. Gladys Carrión has the support of child-welfare advocates but draws criticism from unions representing workers […]
Charities Criticize Online Fund-Raising Contest by Chase
JPMorgan Chase & Company is coming under fire for the way it conducted an online contest to award millions of dollars to 100 charities. At least three nonprofit groups — Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the Marijuana Policy Project and an anti-abortion group, Justice for All— say they believe that Chase disqualified them over concerns […]
Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics
New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions than their middle-class counterparts, the data shows. Those findings, […]
The UN gave children rights - it's time we consulted them
Today is the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. But according to a hard-hitting report by the Children's Rights Alliance, young people's rights to privacy and family life are being breached by local authorities who do not consult them appropriately about the decision to take them into care. Children's […]
Jailing Kudish Children to Undermine Dissent
Turkey is signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, but that does not stop minors in the country's Kurdish dominated eastern and southeastern regions from ending up with stiff jail sentences. In fact, after amendments were recently made to the country's anti-terror law, it is possible to charges children as […]
Youths Challenge City's Curfew Ordinance
West Palm Beach's downtown curfew for minors - 10 p.m. on weekdays and 11 p.m. on weekends - violates the Constitution, a youth rights group says. Led by 17-year-old Jeffrey Nadel, the National Youth Rights Association of Southeast Florida says it's the first youth-led group to sue a city for violating minors' right to peaceably […]
Woman Arrested for Facebook Poke
Beware: a Facebook poke could land you behind bars. Just ask Shannon D. Jackson of Hendersonville, Tennessee, who faces that very real possibility. Jackson was arrested and transported to Sumner County Jail on September 25th with a bond set at $1,500 after she violated an order of protection by allegedly poking a woman on Facebook. […]
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