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What Happens When Parents are Wrongly Accused? |
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Fox News Covers the Family Defense Center
Your child trips, falls and bumps his head. Of course, you rush him to the doctor because that's what good parents do, right? Now we show you what can happen when a simple accident is misdiagnosed as something far more sinister. Mark Saxenmeyer reports on what can happen when parents are wrongly accused of abuse.
Fox News interviews the Evans family, President Mary Broderick, and FDC Executive Director Diane L. Redleaf. Click Here to watch the video. |
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Seeking a Safe Haven |
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Parents abandon teens under a Nebraska law passed to save babies.
By Toni Hoy, for Rise Magazine
In July, Nebraska instituted a "safe haven" law that allows parents to leave a child at a hospital without fear of prosecution. The law was intended to allow parents to safely abandon infants they could not take care of, and many states have similar laws. However, the Nebraska law did not specify that it applied only to babies, and in September and October, as many as 25 parents dropped off older children at hospitals, saying that because of problems and financial woes, they could no longer care for their children.
Click here to visit Rise's website and read the full story.
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Parents sue DCFS over removal of toddler from family |
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Parents sue DCFS over removal of toddler from family
By Ofelia Casillas | Chicago Tribune reporter
October 3, 2008
A toddler's parents are suing state child-welfare investigators and police officers who took their daughter and then forced them to have only monitored contact with her for days during a child-abuse investigation, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
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Read more... [Parents sue DCFS over removal of toddler from family]
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No Recourse |
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By Mary Kelly Broderick, for Rise Magazine
Family Defense Center President Mary
Kelly Broderick describes how parents in Illinois took their case
againt the child welfare system all the way to the Supreme Court. Click Here to visit Rise's website for the full story.
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Family Abuse |
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By Erica Green and Sandi Villareal, Medill Reports, Medill School of Journalism
In protecting children
from abuse, the state has implemented safety plans that were
challenged up to the U.S. Supreme Court. With the Court deciding not to
take the case, Erica L. Green and Sandi Villarreal look into how
families who have lived under the plans deal with the emotional and
financial strain of a system they say is forcing them to do greater
injury to their children.
Please visit the Medill School of Journalism page for the full coverage.
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