Most Recent Articles from Children Today

• The Secretary's initiative on child abuse and neglect - Secretary of Health and Human Services, Louis W. Sullivan 

  Health secretary Louis W. Sullivan created the initiative which called for investigation of reports of child abuse and neglect. The initiative...

  03/01/92 by Lynne Heneson · More from publication

• Healthy families America - child abuse must be prevented 

  Child abuse cases have reached epidemic proportions in the US. Programs for new parents could help by offering help before abuse problems begin....

  03/01/92 by Anne Cohn Donnelly · More from publication

• Origins and clinical relevance of child death review teams - includes related material 

  Child death-review teams have operated in the US since 1978 because of growing child neglect and abuse. The groups began in Los Angeles, CA, and...

  03/01/92 by Michael J. Durfee · More from publication

• Child abuse prevention month 

  States that have conducted programs for public awareness on child abuse issues include Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts and New York. Families and...

  03/01/92 by Miles Golson · More from publication

• Child abuse telecast floods national hotline - 'Scared Silent: Exposing and Ending Child Abuse' hosted by Oprah Winfrey 

  Oprah Winfrey's telecast was followed with a hotline number which received approximately 112,000 calls. The program was designed to focus attention...

  03/01/92 by Patricia Rowe · More from publication

• Shaken baby syndrome: the problem and a model for prevention 

  Many infants and small children have been seriously injured from being shaken. The action, known as Shaken Baby Syndrome, has even caused deaths....

  03/01/92 by Jacy Showers · More from publication

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