Medicaid expansion may prevent child neglect, UW study shows

More than 4 million reports of child maltreatment involving about 7.5 million children were made in 2017 to Child Protective Services. While much work has been done to reduce these high rates of child abuse and neglect in the United States, few programs have been consistently effective.

Now, new research from the University of Washington suggests that expanding Medicaid may help prevent child neglect. After the expansion of Medicaid in 2014, mandated by the Affordable Care Act, there were 422 fewer cases of neglect per 100,000 children under the age of 6 reported each year in states that expanded Medicaid than in states that did not. The study was published June 14 in JAMA Network Open.

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Poverty Isn’t Neglect, But the State Took My Children Anyway

As I write this, I’m sitting in a small, humid room in Plantation, Florida. I’m from Seattle, and I know almost nobody in this area, but I can’t leave. That’s because my three- and four-year-old daughters were taken from me by the state last April. Until that case is overturned, or my parental rights are restored, this is where I’ll stay.

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Plymouth Parents Charged with Neglect after 7-Year-Old Boy Dies

A Plymouth mother and father have been charged with neglect after a 7-year-old boy was found unresponsive and died.

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CPS needs to redefine how it identifies chronic child neglect, study finds

While child protective services workers spend a lot of time working with troubled families, a new study from the University at Buffalo finds those workers need new tools to spot families in which there is chronic child neglect.

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Oregon foster parents who starved preschoolers get 2½ years in prison

John and Danielle Yates, a rural Yamhill County couple, were sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in prison for nearly starving two foster children to death when the sister and brother were between 1 and 5½ years old.

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CPS worker may face punishment for accidentally locking child in hot car

Child Protective Services is deciding Tuesday whether or not to punish one of its employees for accidentally locking a child in a hot car.

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Note: She should be punished, any real parent would be.

• Leaving Your Kid in the Car: How Dangerous is it? Can Turning on the Air Conditioning Make A Difference?

Senate approves bill to define opioid abuse as child neglect

The state Senate passed a measure Thursday that would define opioid abuse as a type of child neglect, in what lawmakers called an attempt to protect children in the face of the heroin epidemic.

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Couple get probation for starving foster child

Couple get probation for starving foster child

An East Lucius Avenue couple accused of starving a foster child in their care in 2014 were sentenced Wednesday to five years’ probation in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Report: Indiana child welfare agency knew of underfed teen

Report: Indiana child welfare agency knew of underfed teen

A newspaper is reporting the Indiana Department of Child Services knew an Anderson 16-year-old was malnourished at least four years before she was rushed to a hospital weighing less than 40 pounds.

Call for adoption to avoid child neglect

Call for adoption to avoid child neglect

Ahead of a national apology to victims of forced adoption practices, a think tank is calling for the greater use of adoption to protect vulnerable children from abuse.

Councils must appoint expert social worker to advise on neglect, says NSPCC

Note: The UK, always looking for new reasons to take your kids.

Councils must appoint expert social worker to advise on neglect, says NSPCC

'Corrosive' child neglect needs to be treated just as seriously as physical or sexual abuse, charity says

Mom ‘outraged’ at kids’ living condition

Mom ‘outraged’ at kids’ living condition


Department of Child Services gives no answer as to how unfit home was missed

Foster parents say neglect case illustrates need for loving homes

Foster parents say neglect case illustrates need for loving homes


The neighbor of a Terre Haute couple facing child neglect charges says he knew something wasn't right at the 12th Street home.

Terre Haute Foster Parents Arrested for Neglect

Terre Haute Foster Parents Arrested for Neglect


Five Terre Haute children spent the holiday weekend in the custody of the Department of Child Services, after their parents were arrested.

Couple charged with neglect of adopted boy

Couple charged with neglect of adopted boy


Authorities have charged a southern Minnesota couple with felony counts of child neglect and endangerment after finding their 8-year-old adopted son so malnourished that his bones were protruding.

Minnesota Couple Accused of Starving Adopted Son

Minnesota Couple Accused of Starving Adopted Son


A Minnesota couple are accused of starving their 8-year-old adopted son, feeding him only liquid and putting an alarm on his door so he would not steal food, according to criminal charges that say the boy was so malnourished his bones protruded and he weighed as much as a child half his age.

'Widespread uncertainty' over protection of neglected children

'Widespread uncertainty' over protection of neglected children


AN UNPUBLISHED independent audit of child protection cases has revealed “widespread uncertainty” among social services and the judiciary over the consequences of neglect on children at risk.

Beach parents charged with neglect say situation is being blown out of proportion

Beach parents charged with neglect say situation is being blown out of proportion

A Virginia Beach couple has been charged with felony child neglect. Police say they weren't feeding their five-month-old properly. But they're telling NewsChannel 3 that it’s being blown way out of proportion.

Note: The Child Protective Industry is great at making mountains out of mole hills.

Haitian Police Raid Orphanage for Abuse and Neglect

Haitian Police Raid Orphanage for Abuse and Neglect

The Director of the Institute of Social Welfare, Jeanne Bernard Pierre and Commissioner Jean Gardy Muscadin, headed of the brigade of police to protect minors at the Son of God orphanage where children were found neglected as its leaders systematically diverted the aid received.

Haiti Closes Orphanage for Child Neglect

Haiti Closes Orphanage for Child Neglect

Haitian authorities have closed an orphanage outside the capital following complaints of neglect and abuse from U.S. missionaries working in the troubled country.