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Overinvolved Parents Charged With Child Abuse
I used to babysit for a three-year-old who spent nearly every minute of her life at her mother’s side; she spent her days playing with her mother, napping with her mother, and eventually falling asleep while her mother rubbed her back. While eating, the little girl often spit out her food, letting it dribble down her chin; rather than telling...
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Is Smacking Your Kid Child Abuse?
A Melbourne mother has been hauled in front of police accused of assaulting her nine-year-old daughter by 'disciplining' her with a whack on the bum with a wooden spoon. Police warned Claire Davidson that she risked being charged with assault with a weapon if she kept up her preferred method of 'teaching' after her daughter revealed in a...
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Father Calls Kids ‘Bitches’ And Slaps Them In The Face (VIDEO)
We got a comment into our system this morning about the fact that the father in this episode of Supernanny in the US is up on child abuse charges. Now, we posted this news sometime back in February this year, but the comment came so out of the blue, today, mid-October, that we took it upon ourselves to track down the episode involved and revisi...
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Woman Spanks Stranger’s Toddler
One day last week, I had no less than three strangers make suggestions to me on how to parent my kids. Annoying, yes, but I’m grateful for one thing: No one tried to slap them or spank them. Earlier this month, Roger Stephens slapped a two-year-old in Walmart after she wouldn’t stop crying. Now a Cincinnati, Ohio woman is being accused of...
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Does This PSA On Child Abuse Cross The Line?
PSAs on child abuse will inevitably be disturbing–as well they should be, if they have any hope of affecting caretaker behaviour or rallying support for domestic abuse centres. But this ad from the network of Children’s Hospitals in Finland resorts to gratuitous extremes to get their point across. Read more...
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Smacking: It’s A Mug’s Game
Is hitting your toddler wrong? Even if you disagree with the idea I reckon pretty much every parent has come close to it. I’ve never actually done it myself. But I’ve sure come close. Nevertheless, the very idea makes me furious. I think it’s wrong. Ethically wrong. Actually, hitting anyone is wrong. But most of the time, if you hit an adult...
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Shocking Stats: Nearly 200 Northern Territory kids with STDs
Here are some sobering figures for your Monday morning. Last year there were 191 cases of either gonorrhoea, chlamydia, syphilis or trichomoniasis reported in Northern Territory kids aged 14 or younger. The figures from the NT Health Department, which are published every six months, show the number of cases in children are rising. In child...
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Anglican Clergy Not to be Left With Children
A new report has revealed the extent of child sexual abuse within the Australian Anglican church. The report, released this week, showed the church averaged nearly a complaint a month between 1990 and 2008, and that boys between 10 and 15 were most at risk. Most victims took more than two decades to complain - and that's just the ones who did sp...
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12-Year-Old Known to Community Services Now Pregnant
This story is so sad. A 12 year old girl is set to become one of the youngest mothers in NSW after becoming pregnant to her older boyfriend. The girl's mother, who was suffering from a mental illness, let the child's older boyfriend move into their home when she was 11, and reportedly allowed the two to sleep in the same bed. The girls' fathe...
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