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Child Protection -- What Ought To Be, Donald N. Duquette
Child Protection -- What Ought To Be, Donald N. Duquette
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America's child protection system should not only protect our children, it should protect our liberty. Several recent cases, and perhaps others in your jurisdiction, highlight a general tension in America's child protection system between child protection and family integrity.
Child Protection Legal Process: Comparing The United States And Great Britain, Donald N. Duquette
Child Protection Legal Process: Comparing The United States And Great Britain, Donald N. Duquette
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The legal response to child maltreatment-or the risk of child maltreatment-varies greatly from society to society and has been little studied, in part because of the idiosyncrasies of community values, social organization, history and legal traditions.2 Cross-country comparison of child abuse and neglect is especially difficult because the ambiguity of social standards and the imprecision of terms used makes it difficult to define the specific behavior one is studying. Even though child maltreatment is widely prohibited, the definition of what actually constitutes child abuse and neglect is not clear within a particular country, much less uniform from one society to …