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Child-removal
threshold 'too low'
By Caroline Overington, August 19, 2008
Former
child services agent guilty of abuse
By Sam Corrie, Daily Press, August 7, 2008
Province
to spot-check foster homes Reviews of several CFS agencies uncover serious
problems
By: Mary Agnes Welch and Mia Rabson, Winnepeg Free Press, Manitoba, Canada,
August 8, 2008
Director
of child welfare agency gets fired
By: Mary Agnes Welch, Winnepeg Free Press, Manitoba, Canada, August 6, 2008
Birmingham
council illegally sent children into care in Jersey, MP report reveals
By Eileen Fairweather, The Daily Mail, 4 August 2008
Vulnerable
children failed by notification scheme and 'private fostering'
By Rosemary Bennett, The Times. August 4, 2008
Care givers locked woman in her
home for four years
TT/The Local , thelocal.se, 4 Aug 08
Of
course I had to abduct Sam, it was the right thing to protect my family
By Camilla Cavendish, The Times, August 2, 2008
Judge’s
rare ruling allowed story to be told
Behind the case The Times, August 2, 2008
Jersey murder inquiry
'unlikely'
BBC News, 31 July 2008
Why
a smacking ban must be slapped down
By Denise Robertson, Western Mail, July 29, 2008
Nanny Linda
Wise cleared of killing baby after trial collapses
By Russell Jenkins, The Times, July 26, 2008
'Social
workers ripped our family apart for 10 years'
By Tanya Thompson, Social Affairs Correspondent, 26 July 2008
Knock
on the door… and a child's world fell apart
The Scotsman, 25 July 2008
Discredited
Anti-Smacking Advocate in NZ
Press Release: Family First Lobby, 25 July 2008
Moral Neutrality
By Muriel Newman, NZCPR, 20 July 2008
Rich
Country - Poor Families
By Muriel Newman, NZCPR, 1 April, 2006
Times
wins ruling over secrecy of family court
By Rosemary Bennett, Social Affairs Correspondent, The Times, July 22, 2008
Family Flees Before
Children Taken
Justice
for Families. An enormous response to the articles in The Times highlights
widespread concern over the secrecy that shrouds the family courts
The Times, Leading article, July 12, 2008
Europe
to begin investigation of secrecy in family courts
By Sam Coates, Chief Political Correspondent, and Camilla Cavendish, The Times,
July 10, 2008
I
launched Childline to protect the most vulnerable - but unleashed a politically
correct monster
By Esther Rantzen, The Daily Mail, July 9, 2008
Family
justice: what we can do to protect our children. A ten-point plan to make our
courts system fairer
By Camilla Cavendish, The Times, July 9, 2008
Justice
can't be done in secret. And here's why
By Daniel Finkelstein, The Times, July 9, 2008
Family
justice: your word against theirs
By Camilla Cavendish, The Times, July 9, 2008
The Times launches
campaign on family justice
Family Law Week, July 2008
A
Conspiracy of Silence. Allowing the family courts and social services to
operate in secret allows miscarriages of justice without the possibility of
redress
The Times, Leading Article,
July 7, 2008
Family
justice: the secret state that steals our children
By Camilla Cavendish, The Times, July 7, 2008
Family
Justice: how to find help and advice online. There are numerous campaign and
advice groups looking at the issues surrounding family courts in the UK
Tom Whitwell, Communities Editor, The Times, July 4, 2008
Secret Justice, Private Hell
By Alasdair Palmer, Standpoint, June 2008
Parents
held for murder of their son after paramedics 'failed to spot playground injury
that killed him'
By Liz Hull, The Daily Mail, June 20, 2008
Two face
sex abuse charges
By Staff Reporter, The Sun, 20 Jun 2008
‘Fifty
kids raped at care home’
By Mike Sullivan, Crime Editor, The Sun, 11 Jun 2008
Child
protection damages public health
Press Release 21st May 2008
Child
protection
By Jean Robinson
Guilty
until proved innocent: the grotesque reality of family courts. Will we be able
to report if a mother kills herself through the grief of loss?
By Camilla Cavendish
'I
will not be moved', vows Fathers 4 Justice campaigner who is STILL on
minister's roof
By Daily Mail Reporter
Youth crime leads to no
consequences
By Henrika Åkerman
Already Guilty at 6
By Mark Steyn
Dad
grounds daughter, but court ungrounds her
'Parents are going to be walking on egg
shells from now on'
Parents
sent to jail for homeschooling. 'Words
escape me, it's unconscionable, incredible, shocking,' says attorney
By Bob Unruh
We
signed away our family and our future
Drug
addict parents lose right to look after child
Youth violence
in Sweden: The Riccardo Campogiani Case
A series of articles in The Local
Youth violence in Sweden: The Rödeby
shooting case
A series of articles in The Local
Youngsters tortured
55-year-old to death. They filmed when disabled man begged for his life
Av Olle Castelius
Throw Away Kids-Family
Business
By Joe Piasecki, Pasadena Weekly, July 6, 2006
LV
4-year-old who died after being left in car identified
Las Vegas Review-Journal
4-year-old
dies alone in car
Hitting
children is bad, smacking is not
Location of Mass
Graves of Residential School Children Revealed; Independent Tribunal Established
By Brenda Norrell
Parents
losing custody for homeschooling children
Study Shows Child Abuse Rate Affected by
Family Structure
14yr
old's satire exposes Anti-Smacking-Law Folly: Concern Over Proposed 'Garden
Laws'
By Bethany Robb
Anti-smacking Law
Cases
Family First, New Zealand
Court blasts
state's strip-search of children
By Chelsea Schilling
Judge
attacks social workers who took 'abused' girl, ten, away from parents for no
reason
By Steve Doughty
Local
authority behaviour over adoption excoriated
Court of Appeal. C v East Sussex County Council (Adoption)
Judges
lambast social workers in adoption case
By Sam Underwood
"Give honour where honour is
due."
By Jan Hansen
"We want access to our
grandkids"
By Jayne Warren
Beware
of social workers
By Maureen Messent
The Jersey children's home - Haut de la
Garenne - and other institutions
A series of articles in different UK media
Locked
up for smacking my son ... How a slap brought police and social services in to
tear a family apart
By SUSAN POPE
Public
school nurse sacked after son reports her for smacking his brother
By Nick Britten
Police free boy, 16, who
was kidnapped as infant. Victim taken into foster care after fluke arrest of
'mother' in Latvia
Associated Press
A
Bump, A Panic, Two Babies Torn From Home
By Marc Fisher
Sweden rejects child prostitution damages
claim
TT/The Local
The
Incontrovertible Facts About Fathers
By Janice Shaw Crouse
Smack
on the hand worth time in jail
By Sacha Coburn
Dr. Charles
Smith: The man behind the public inquiry
CBC News In Depth
Wis.
woman freed in shaken baby case
By Ryan J. Foley
Child's
Skeleton Found In Jersey: Parts of a child's body have been found at a former
care home in Jersey.
Sky News - February 23, 2008
Child's body found
at care home
BBC News, February 23, 2008
'Sandy
Reid Tells How He Was Taken From Traveller Family And Sent To Australia'
By Annie Brown, The Daily Record, Feb 21, 2008
The Louise Mason Case
A series of articles in Irish and British media
British
justice: a family ruined. A chilling example of our secret State where a mother
and child are forced into hiding
By Camilla Cavendish
Pivot Report
Finds Kids Lost in Child Protection System
Forced Drugging of Children in Foster Care:
Turning Child Abuse Victims into Involuntary Psychiatric Patients
By M. McKay
The Baby Snatchers: The Case of "G"
A series of articles in British media
Open Court Is For
The Public
The Post-Journal Article
Child court
service 'inadequate'
BBC News article
A day of mixed
emotions
By Jemina Wilson
Parents Deserve
The Right To Raise Their Children
By Bob McCoskrie
How
do you judge a court held in secret?
By William Rees-Mogg
Jailed:
The man who helped his wife flee abroad as social workers threatened to take
their baby
By Fiona Barton
Judge's
tribute to PA reporter who broke baby-in-care story
Press Gazette
Judge
returns new-born to social workers for foster placement
writes Nina Jacobs
Shortlived
joy for teenager whose baby was taken away
Rosemary Bennett
MAIL
COMMENT: The shameful secrecy of the adoption system
The Daily Mail
Mother who
won back her baby faces second battle to keep it
By Rosemary Bennett
The
baby snatchers: Judge orders social workers to hand back newborn child taken
from hospital at 4am
By David Wilkes
Runaway mum has baby girl
By Jeanette Oldham
Flick gets father charged
with assault
TVNZ One News
How
I survived being starved, beaten and tortured by my Jehovah's Witness foster
mother
By Alloma Gilbert
Unfit
to be a mother?
By Kate Hilpern
Message from Sweden
By Ruby Harrold-Claesson
Pregnant
woman who fled UK after social services threatened to take her baby now told
she can keep her child
Daily Mail News
article
The Fran
Lyon Case
A series of articles in the Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The
Journal and Sky News, August 26, 2007 --
Child
Abuse More Likely in Shack-Up Relationships
By Dr Laura
American College
of Pediatricians Supports Spanking
Family News in Focus
Discipline of the Child
Corporal Punishment: A Scientific
Review of its Use in Discipline
By The American College of Pediatricians
Guidelines for
parental use of disciplinary spanking
By The American College of Pediatricians
Cash Incentives
for Adoptions Seen as Risk to Some Children
By
Leslie Kaufman
Flexi-hours
and longer maternity leave: A triumph for feminism? Anything but!
By Sue Reid
Canada's
implementation of UN child rights convention spotty: new report
By Colin Perkel
I've
fled the country to stop social workers taking my baby
By Elizabeth Sanderson
Maxine
Frith: The neglect that reduces girls to a life on the streets
Research found that 42 per cent of young prostitutes had been in care at some
point
Care
home girl abused by 25 men in 2 years
By Jo Knowsley and Eileen Fairweather
Fosterer
jailed for abuse
News item in the Scotsman
Council let
known paedophile become foster parent
By Patrick Barnham and Raymond Hainey
Blind
justice without a name
By Camilla Cavendish
Courts
won't reveal rulings in adoption cases
By Ben Leapman
Parents
win right to keep fourth child - but vow to fight for the other three
By Laura Collins
Councils
making millions in incentives after snatching record numbers of babies for
adoption
By Sue Reid
The
state stole our children
By Sue Reid
High on life: the biggest
health care fraud in history?
By Laura J Snook
Be a foster parent in Norway and get
rich quickly
Posted by African Press
“Barnevernet” The Norwegian Child
Protection Unit must stop splitting minority families in Norway!
Posted by African Press
Smacked 5-year old - father acquitted. He
admitted smacking, but the District Court meant that the blows were not hard
enough
Press release Aftonbladet. Translation: Ruby Harrold-Claesson
A major decision -
Mean little bullies: That's what a researcher says daycare will turn kids into
By Anne Morse
CCWales:
Social worker removed from register in conduct hearing
Social worker banned after child pornography
conviction
By Derren Hayes
Mother angered by
anti-smacking law
School
dobs mum to CYF for hand smack
By Ruth Laugesen
Is
this doctor responsible for parents being falsely branded as child abusers?
By Sue Reid
Parents
of obese children to get warning letters
By Sophie Borland
More
Swedish Parents Smack Their Children
Sveriges Radio - 2007-10-23
Government
u-turn as ministers tell parents they CAN smack their children
Daily Mail News
Toddlers
allowed to run wild risk being violent adults, parents told
By David Derbyshire
Parents
blamed for yobs with no manners
By Graeme Paton
Police could have prevented teen
shooting'
By Paul O'Mahony
Murder suspect's family speak out
The Local
Governor calls for
parental punishments
Phuket Gazette
Gay
couple left free to abuse boys - because social workers feared being branded
homophobic
By PAUL SIMS
Guilty
of child abuse! (Well, our version.)
By Camilla Cavendish
YouTube
Row over Social Services Baby Threat
By Ben Leapman
MP bids to lift secrecy in family courts
By Ben Leapman and Andrew Alserson
The
Rank Hypocrisy of Family Court Judges
By Camilla Cavendish
Family
courts are the B-side of the law
By Camilla Cavendish
How
can this happen here?
By Camilla Cavendish
Mother wins fight to get
her baby back
By Shan Ross
Save a life - shoot a social worker
How
the NSPCC faked child abuse stories to generate cash
News article in The Daily Mail
System
taking hundreds of babies for adoption
By Andrew Alderson. Bob Leapman and Tom Harper
For the children's sake, it's time
to lift this veil
By Alasdair Palme
Wrongs that cannot be righted
News article in The Telegraph
Adoption too expensive for local
councils
By David Harrison
Child
abuse case drove mother to abortion
By Ben Leapman
Vatican
ire over botched twin abortion
Article in The Herald Sun
This
'right' for gays is an injustice to children
By Roger Scruton
How
social services can seize our children
By Cassandra Jardine
Children are taken away - but the
system can't admit it's wrong
By Cassandra Jardine
Food
additives make children behave badly
By Valerie Elliott
The plight
of the fatherless children
Del. Joanne C. Benson
The Smacking Law Hypocrisy
By Ruby Harrold-Claesson
Foster home child abuse 'worse
than expected'
The Local
When good parenting
becomes a crime
By Judge Roy Moore
Innocence is up for sale
By Patrick
McGinnity
Children will be victims as
parties declare war on the natural family
By Hermann Kelly
'Stolen' Guatemala
children found
Illegal Guatemalan foster home raid finds
46 babies
By Mica Rosenberg
Six
care workers sacked for whistleblowing awarded £1m
The Politics of Lawmaking
By Muriel Newman
French
teenager prosecuted for stealing her mother's chequebook
By Ruby Harrold-Claesson
Child
abuse will only get worse says Bay expert
By Elaine Fisher
Boy's
111 'parent assault' call unfounded
By Rebecca Papprill
Council
of Europe urges ban on smacking children
What is child abuse?
By Lena
Hellblom Sjögren
The Empresses'
new clothes or Smacking: Those Kiwis must be crazy!
Kafka in Stockholm. Tear down the Swedish model's
slave trade
By Ulf Sandmark
Rankin calls for an
'Honest Debate On Child Abuse'
Press release Scoop
The parents
said ‘we want help’ the state responded ‘we want your children’
Sinister Agenda Behind Smacking
Ban
By Patrick McGinnity
Poll
must respect families - Logan
Editorial in The Irish Times
Swedish professor
slams New Zealand MP
Professor Jacob W F
Sundberg's letter to Kathryn Rich
Sinister agenda
behind children’s rights proposal
By Patrick McGinnity
NZ's Anti-Smacking Law
Most Extreme in the World
By Robert E. Larzelere
Six
year old called the police - to punish mother
By Annika Sohlander
United
Nations urges Guatemala to suspend adoptions
Reuters
Exclusive:
Smacking Parents Won't Face Prison. Human rights 'farce' faces axe
How
a family court stole my family
By Corinna Honan
New
Zealand - Cabinet Minister Corrects Child With a Smack
Drug mother
has all 14 children taken into care
By Maurice Chittenden and Claire Newell
Girl
calls for police help over messy room
Berlin (Reuters)
Broken
families 'fuelling black crime'
By Philip Johnston
Leave
those kids alone
By Ross Chainey
Bradford's Bill will
create new criminals
By Ruby Harrold-Claesson
Critics
Protest 'Anti-Smacking' Bill
By Ray Lilley
How
nurseries 'still breed aggression'
By Sarah Womack
Poor Behavior
Is Linked to Time in Day Care
By Benedict Carey
Child
abuse case drove mother to abortion
By Ben Leapman
The Smacking Bill A Con Job
By Muriel Newman
Foster mother
inflicted 20 years of sadistic abuse on three children
By Steven Morris
Foster
carer convicted of abuse and cruelty towards children in her care
By Mithran Samuel
Ritalin Bill "Not Perfect, but
Good Step for Parents"
KCPW News
Garth
George: Be afraid parents, your children will dob you in
The
terror aged ten: Asbo for boy who drinks, smokes pot and steals
By Chris Brooke
MoreFM
interview with Ruby Harrold-Claesson
By Simon Barnett, Christchurch, New
Zealand
A
smack can keep children from crime, says police leader
Parents
Under Attack
By Muriel Newman
Stop beating the
parents
By Melanie Phillips
Wrong
to smack but right to kill?
By Ross Clark
14% Increase in Child
Abuse despite Swedish Smacking Ban
Mother was
wrongly labeled risk to child
By Rosemary Bennett
Smacking away parental
rights
By Marc Alexander
The
Cleveland Case - The women who went through an ordeal beyond belief
Why
'the rights of children' is a juvenile concept
By Christopher Caldwell
Babies 'removed
to meet targets'
By Brian Wheeler
Foster
mom charged with killing boy, 2
Ronald J. Hansen and Kim Kozlowski
Forgotten Children
A Special Report on the Texas Foster
Care System
Foster Care
By Betty Reid Mandell
Foster
Care Problems in Texas
By John Breeding (YouTube Video clip)
Russia probe into 'gagged'
babies
Mother wants her
children back
Tb News Source
Lawmaker
deserves a spanking
By Steven Greenhut
Striking
a pose
By Anne Atkins
Victim decries sex link to
discipline
Sue Bradford's Bull
Two episodes from the New Zealand smacking debate
Children's Needs, not
Rights, should be the Focus
By Bob McCoskrie