Child Fatalities

January 18, 2024
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Help protect Minnesota children: Important findings in our latest Child Fatalities from Maltreatment report

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Recently we asked the Department of Human Services to share the number of child fatalities…

February 2, 2023
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Safe Passage for Children Releases Report on Minnesota Child Fatalities

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Yesterday Safe Passage for Children released its year-long study of Minnesota child fatalities from maltreatment…

January 12, 2023
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Should We Love All Children or Just our Own?

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Our soon-to-be-released study of child fatalities documents numerous physical assaults on children that caseworkers, law…

January 5, 2023
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Why is Chronic Maltreatment Pervasive Yet Rarely Addressed?

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These blogs in Marie Cohen’s Child Welfare Monitor and Dee Wilson’s Sounding Board explore chronic…

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December 9, 2022
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Biological Parents Responsible for Just Half of Child Fatalities

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One unexpected finding from our study of 88 Minnesota child fatalities is that nearly half…

November 3, 2022
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Who Will Challenge the Current Political Order to Protect Children?

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This week’s webinar speaker, Dee Wilson, co-wrote an article for a 2013 edition of the…

October 27, 2022
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Whatever Happened to the Battered Child Syndrome?

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In 1962 Dr. C. H. Kempe and his associates published “The Battered Child Syndrome” which…

August 25, 2022
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Will Wrongful Death Lawsuits Spur Reforms?

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For decades counties have given increasing weight to parents’ rights, which has led to leaving…

April 28, 2022
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How Society Became Wholly Indifferent to the Suffering of Children

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Early findings from our current research on Minnesota child murders show high risk cases being…

March 31, 2022
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New Safe Passage Research on Child Fatalities

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Safe Passage for Children is analyzing the 87 murders of children in Minnesota since 2014,…

Help protect Minnesota children: Important findings in our latest Child Fatalities from Maltreatment report

Safe Passage for Children Releases Report on Minnesota Child Fatalities

Should We Love All Children or Just our Own?

Why is Chronic Maltreatment Pervasive Yet Rarely Addressed?

Biological Parents Responsible for Just Half of Child Fatalities

Who Will Challenge the Current Political Order to Protect Children?

Whatever Happened to the Battered Child Syndrome?

How Society Became Wholly Indifferent to the Suffering of Children

New Safe Passage Research on Child Fatalities

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