Timothy Carney of the Washington Examiner highlights the impact of a growing challenge for American parents. “Parenting isn’t about minimizing risk to your children,” a mother in Arizona once wrote…
The report "found that child abuse reports, investigations, substantiated allegations and interventions have dropped at a staggering rate, increasing risks for the most vulnerable of families in the U.S." Most…
It is sad when children are abused. It is sad when a report says programs that are supposed to help abused children are hardly doing a thing right. It is…
An article in the latest print edition of National Review titled “The Paranoid Style in American Parenting” features the following quip: The CPS [Child Protective Services] worker “generally undertook the…
We’ve seen it with school lunches, and with kids allowed to play on their own in parks. Now here’s one with parents who let their children walk home unsupervised. A…
View in your browser. In honor of Healthcare Solutions Week, I wanted to share with you some information about North Carolina’s Health and Human Services budget. The North Carolina Department…
Legislation is moving forward to transfer control of all or a portion of Jackson and Swain counties’ social services programs on the Cherokee reservation over to the tribe. Some tribal…
By now you’ve probably seen the viral video of the Albemarle, NC, dad who shot his daughter’s laptop eight times because she posted a Facebook update that used vulgarities and…
Kudos to Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell, who is sounding the alarm about the need for additional on-call assistance from the county’s 55 social workers who deal with kids whose…
You gotta be kidding me. If multiple members of your family have turned you in to DSS for living with a registered sex offender, doing coke with him in front of your child…
A probation officer under investigation in the horrific death of 2-year-old Shanna Lanham has resigned. Addison Lanham, 2, and her mom, who is charged with child abuse in her death…
Very tough to make big sweeping statements given what we know about the facts on the ground up in Rowan County. It is clear that local authorities believed that children…