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Advocating For Children With Disabilities In Child Protection Cases, Joshua B. Kay

Articles

Children with disabilities are maltreated at a higher rate than other children and overrepresented in child protection matters, yet most social service caseworkers, judges, child advocates, and other professionals involved in these cases receive little to no training about evaluating and addressing their needs. Child protection case outcomes for children with disabilities tend to differ from those of nondisabled children, with more disabled children experiencing a termination of their parents' rights and fewer being reunified with their parents or placed with kin. They also tend to experience longer waits for adoption. Furthermore, the poor outcomes that plague youth who age …

A Cure Worse Than The Disease? The Impact Of Removal On Children And Their Families, Vivek Sankaran, Christopher Church, Monique Mitchell

Articles

Removing children from their parents is child welfare's most drastic intervention. Research clearly establishes the profound and irreparable damage family separation can inflict on children and their parents. To ensure that this intervention is only used when necessary, a complex web of state and federal constitutional principles, statutes, administrative regulations, judicial decisions, and agency policies govern the removal decision. Central to these authorities is the presumption that a healthy and robust child welfare system keeps families together, protects children from harm, and centers on the needs of children and their parents. Yet, research and practice-supported by administrative data-paint a different …

Adopting Civil Damages: Wrongful Family Separation In Adoption, Malinda L. Seymore

Washington and Lee Law Review

The Trump Administration’s new immigration policy of family separation at the U.S./Mexico border rocked the summer of 2018. Yet family separation is the prerequisite to every legal adoption. The circumstances are different, of course. In legal adoption, the biological parents are provided with all the constitutional protections required in involuntary termination of parental rights, or they have voluntarily consented to family separation. But what happens when that family separation is wrongful, when the birth mother’s consent is not voluntary, or when the birth father’s wishes to parent are ignored? In theory, the child can be returned to the birth parents …

Skinning The Cat: How Mandatory Psychiatric Evaluations For Animal Cruelty Offenders Can Prevent Future Violence, Ashley Kunz

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

In 2017, the Texas legislature amended Texas Penal Code § 42.092, which governs acts of cruelty against non-livestock animals. The statute in its current form makes torturing, killing, or seriously injuring a non-livestock animal a third degree felony, while less serious offenses carry either a state jail felony or a Class A misdemeanor charge.

While a step in the right direction, Texas law is not comprehensive in that it fails to address a significant aspect of animal cruelty offenses: mental illness. For over fifteen years, Texas Family Code § 54.0407 has required psychiatric counseling for juveniles convicted of cruelty to …

Best Training Practices For Probation Officers And Staff Toward Building A More Sophisticated, Fair, And Effective System Of Juvenile Justice In San Diego County, Carissa Carrasquillo

Ethnic Studies Senior Capstone Papers

This report illustrates how probation leadership, officers, and staff in San Diego County can adopt best training practices to address and alleviate incidents in juvenile detention facilities and build a sophisticated, fair, and effective system of juvenile justice. The goal of implementing best training practices for probation officers and staff is to build a knowledgeable workforce to better serve youth and families and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system. This report analyzes how innovations in management and the introduction of new programs has proven effective through research- and evidence-based practices and direct community involvement. In particular, …

Puffing Away Parental Rights: A Survey And Analysis Of Whether Secondhand Smoke Exposure Is Child Abuse, Karly Huml

Journal of Law and Health

The steps taken thus far to protect children in public areas, custody cases, and in vehicles show the legislature's awareness of the chemical harms of secondhand smoke for children. This article will analyze those steps and discuss what they mean for both parents' and children's constitutional rights. This article proposes that the legislature take a vital fourth step by including secondhand smoke exposure in child abuse laws. Section II of this article provides the history of smoking tobacco and its transition from a trendy social status to an unpopular, harmful habit. Section II also introduces the steps that have been …

Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review

Seattle University Law Review

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Champions For Justice & Public Interest Auction 2019, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Public Interest Auction

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Children Placed In Kinship Care: Recommended Policy Changes To Provide Adequate Support For Kinship Families, Christina Mcclurg Riehl, Tara Shuman

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Spotlight On: The Inter-American Children's Institute, Adriana Domingo

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Table Of Contents, Children's Legal Rights Journal

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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From Paternalism To Process: Reflections From The Bench On 40 Years Of American Child Advocacy, Erik S. Pitchal

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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The History And Influence Of The National Association Of Counsel For Children - An Alternate Perspective, Martin Guggenheim

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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In Spite Of The Odds: Achieving Educational Stability For Maryland's African American Foster Youth, Marja K. Plater

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Ending "Solitary Confinement" Of Youth In California, Sue Burrell, Ji Seon Song

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Table Of Contents, Children's Legal Rights Journal

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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The Transformation Of A Shy Girl: From Adolescent Protester To Piano Technician, Nurse And Child Advocate, Mary Anderson Richards

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Improving Protection And Services For Trafficking Victims In The United States: Recommendations Based On The United Kingdom's Modern Slavery Act 2015, Yusuf Abdulkareem

Children's Legal Rights Journal

Human trafficking is a form of modern slavery that occurs both internationally and within national borders. It is a multibillion-dollar criminal industry, and millions of men, women, and children have been victims of this heinous and unconscionable crime.2 Fortunately, the problem of human trafficking has finally started to receive the attention it deserves. Over the past two decades, a plethora of anti-trafficking laws have been passed at both international and domestic levels. The United States specifically has been a leader in the promulgation of anti-trafficking laws that have served as models for other nations of the world. These federal laws, …

Recurring Cardinal Sins: How The Holy See And Canon Law Have Perpetuated Child Sexual Abuse By Clergy Members, Gabriela Hidalgo

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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In The Courts: Extending Sentencing Protections For Young Offenders, Sarah Sewell

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Legislative Update: Massachusetts Raises Minimum Age Of Criminal Responsibility, Brianna Hill

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Review: I Am Jane Doe, Gabriela Hidalgo

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Around The World: Children's Lack Of Access To Fundamental Rights In Nepal And The Effects The Nepalese Legal System Has On Poverty, Health, Education, Child Labor, Child Trafficking, And Child Marriage, Lily Ealey

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Opposing Viewpoints: In Favor Of United States Ratification Of The Convention On The Rights Of The Child, Carly Helman

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Opposing Viewpoints: The U.S. Should Not Ratify The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child, Charlotte Galvin

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Statistically Speaking: Questioning The Conventional Perceptions Of The Mental Health Professional's Role In Child Custody Evaluations: A Review Of Ira Daniel Turkat's Preliminary Research, Ben Greene

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Education Connection: School Safety: The Industry Shootings Has Created And What We Can Do To Protect Our Children, Hannah Batsche

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Interview With: Illinois' Juvenile Sex Offender Registry And The Process For Removal, Alison Brooks

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Table Of Contents, Children's Legal Rights Journal

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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The Right To Legal Assistance For Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Under The Inter-American System Of Human Rights, Adriana Domingo Cabrera

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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