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What is Neglect? Maybe Not What People Think

What is Neglect? Maybe Not What People Think 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

A common trope alleges that child protection caseworkers confuse poverty with neglect.   This has been…

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Safe Passage for Children Releases Report on Minnesota Child Fatalities

Safe Passage for Children Releases Report on Minnesota Child Fatalities 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

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

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Should We Love All Children or Just our Own?

Should We Love All Children or Just our Own? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

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

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Is Chronic Neglect the Future for Children?

Is Chronic Neglect the Future for Children? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Chronic neglect refers to cases that are reported to child protection repeatedly.  Our recent webinar…

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Who Will Challenge the Current Political Order to Protect Children?

Who Will Challenge the Current Political Order to Protect Children? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

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

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Reduction in Child Poverty Drives a Reduction in Child Maltreatment

Reduction in Child Poverty Drives a Reduction in Child Maltreatment 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

A recent study by Child Trends showed that government programs such as the Earned Income…

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Face Facts: We Identify with Parents Not Children

Face Facts: We Identify with Parents Not Children 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Advocating for children is simple in the abstract. But when individuals learn that friends have…

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Nicholas Kristof is the only national columnist reporting on child abuse

Nicholas Kristof is the only national columnist reporting on child abuse 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Nicholas Kristoff (@NickKristof) deserves our readership. He recently published an update to his December article…

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Support for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse

Support for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Some of our volunteers have encouraged us to help them form support groups for adult…

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