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Amish Sexual Abuse: What Happens When Community is More Important than Children?

Amish Sexual Abuse: What Happens When Community is More Important than Children? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Garments of 13 sexually abused children were exhibited last month at a convention of “Plain”…

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How Society Became Wholly Indifferent to the Suffering of Children

How Society Became Wholly Indifferent to the Suffering of Children 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

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

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Did Child Abuse Actually Go Down During Covid?

Did Child Abuse Actually Go Down During Covid? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Many observers expected child abuse to increase during covid because it would be hidden from…

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Do Social Workers Confuse Poverty with Neglect?

Do Social Workers Confuse Poverty with Neglect? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Research cited in this Child Welfare Monitor article indicates that most poor parents do not…

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Progressives and Conservatives Converge on Anti-Child Welfare Agenda

Progressives and Conservatives Converge on Anti-Child Welfare Agenda 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

On the political left, the UpEND movement wants to abolish child welfare.  This includes letting…

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Many Chances for Parents Means No Chance for a Child

Many Chances for Parents Means No Chance for a Child 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Safe Passage is utilizing public case records to analyze child fatalities in Minnesota since 2015. …

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Why Can’t We Get Timely Child Welfare Information?

Why Can’t We Get Timely Child Welfare Information? 1200 846 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

The federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Minnesota Department of Human…

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What’s Worse than Going into Foster Care?

What’s Worse than Going into Foster Care? 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

This “just-when-you-thought-it-couldn’t-get-worse” New York Times article documents a “shadow foster care” system that tells parents…

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How We Got Five Decades of Anti-Child Policies

How We Got Five Decades of Anti-Child Policies 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

In 1972 the Annie E. Casey and Edna McConnell Clark foundations began promoting Intensive Family…

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Physical Punishment Widely Supported Despite Research on Ill Effects

Physical Punishment Widely Supported Despite Research on Ill Effects 940 788 Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota

Prevent Child Abuse America just released this survey documenting widespread support for physical punishment of…

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