3 results for month: 03/2012
Child Rape Handbooks coming soon to an e-book seller near you!
The mantra of unfettered internet freedom has forced PayPal to abandon plans to prohibit the use of its payment network for child sex abuse material like The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct which was jettisoned by Amazon.com in 2010.
On March 8, 2012, in an act of conscientious corporate responsibility, PayPal revealed a longstanding policy which limited the use of its payments service "to purchase material focused on rape, incest or bestiality." Based perhaps on Amazon.com's experience with pedophile grooming manuals, PayPal recognized that "this type of content also sometimes intentionally blurs the line ...
Psychotropic Medications and Children in Foster Care
Psychopharmacology is one way to manage mental health disorders in children and youth. Yet for children in foster care, medication combined with a lack of understanding about their mental health backgrounds and trauma histories has the potential to cause more harm than good. A new policy brief produced by the American Bar Association (ABA) makes recommendations for practice that can support healthy psychopharmacology plans for children and youth in care.
The brief outlines the benefits and drawbacks of psychotropic medications and common diagnoses in infants, children, and youth. The brief also lists the American Academy of Child and Psychiatry's ...
Reinstating Parental Rights
Not all children whose parents' parental rights have been terminated by a court end up with a new family. In fact, many youth never achieve permanency, but instead remain in some kind of out-of-home care until they age out of the foster care system.
In a new journal article, "Reinstating Parental Rights: Another Path to Permanency?", authors Susan Getman and Steve Christian explore the option of reuniting these youth with their birth parents. In a handful of States, State law permits the parents' parental rights to be restored; in other States, the path to legal reunification is less well defined. In most cases, the courts will approve ...