CAPTA, successes and failures at preventing child abuse and neglect: hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, August 2, 2001, Volume 4 |
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Page 177 - Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves. But it does not follow that they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full and legal discretion when they can make that choice for themselves.
Page 145 - The right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community or the child to communicable disease or the latter to ill health or death.
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Page 64 - If the nation had deliberately designed a system that would frustrate the professionals who staff it, anger the public who finance it, and abandon the children who depend on it, it could not have done a better job than the present child welfare system.
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Page 40 - I am pleased to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses and wish to thank each of you for taking the time to be with us. In just a few moments...
Page 176 - State child protective service system to pursue any legal remedies, including the authority to initiate legal proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, as may be necessary to prevent the withholding of medically indicated treatment from disabled infants with life- threatening conditions.
Page 14 - Pennsylvania and holds the Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence in the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania. He is...
Page 64 - Board cited the scope of the problem and stated that [the] system the nation has developed to respond to child abuse and neglect is failing. It is not a question of acute failure of a single element of the system; there is a chronic and critical multiple organ failure.
Page 176 - I am testifying on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), an organization of 53,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.