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Baby Found Alive Beside Dead Parents in Hotel Room in Michigan
One of the gripes people seem to have with CPS in Michigan is their inability to get it right when making decisions about which kids are at risk and which kids aren’t. They will fight a loving parent tooth and nail, sometimes for years, trying to remove a child who’s in no danger, but on…
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How The Opioid Crisis Affects Michigan’s Children, And Our Child Welfare System
Every year in the United States, about 80 deaths are reported as a result of tornadoes. About 17 people are killed by hurricanes, and lightning causes an average of 55 fatalities annually. But when it comes to opioid abuse, the numbers are staggering. No less than 42,000 people lose their lives every year to opioid…
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Accident or Neglectful Parenting? What Happens When a Child Goes Missing?
Whenever a child goes missing in the movies, the story tends to focus on the frantic manhunt, and the relief parents experience when the child is finally found. Which makes sense, because that’s what parents and loved ones are experiencing when a kid turns up missing. At first it’s all denial and horror and anxiety,…
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Should Michigan Child Abuse Laws Change For Cases Involving Vulnerable Children?
When a person is convicted of abusing or neglecting a child in Michigan, there are rather specific sentencing ranges that Judges have to use when sentencing them to prison. First Degree Child Abuse can be punished by up to life in prison, but Fourth Degree Child Abuse is only a misdemeanor, and doesn’t get more…
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Can Education Reduce Child Abuse Numbers in Michigan?
April was child abuse prevention month, and all over Michigan nonprofits and other organizations came together to raise awareness and funding to combat child abuse. Then, just a few short weeks ago, the Kids Count report was released, and we saw that the numbers for child abuse in Michigan have actually gone up in the…
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“Freezer Mom” Back in Court, Accusing Another of Pedophilia!
Remember ‘freezer mom’? The Detroit woman who starved and abused her children to death, and then hid their bodies in a chest freezer by the front door of her apartment until they were discovered during her eviction? Well, it appears her antics haven’t ended yet. She was recently back in court for a misconduct issue…
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MCTF to Host Discussion Panel on Substance Abuse and Child Abuse
It has long been known that substance abuse and child abuse tend to go hand in hand. Parents trapped in a cycle of drug or alcohol abuse often make poor parenting choices – sometimes as a result of the substance they ingested, sometimes because of a lack of that very substance they’re addicted to, and…
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Can a Doctor Force me to Take a Polygraph if They Think I Hurt my Child?
You’ve seen lie detector tests in the movie at some point, right? Some serious-looking man in a suit asks a whole lot of strange questions – many of them obvious – to some poor nervous wreck in a chair. Nearby, the machine they’re hooked up to quietly spits out a ream of paper covered in…
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What Happens When Your Kids Get Into Your ‘Medibles’?
One of the major points of contention among supporters of legalized recreational marijuana in Michigan and its detractors, was the issue of how it would affect kids. Would seeing their parents use pot make it more likely for kids to want to use it too? Would they be exposed to the second hand smoke of…
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Do Parents Get Into Trouble With CPS When Their Kids Break The Law?
Do you remember the Jamarion Lawhorn case? The young boy from Kent County who, after years of living in a violently abusive home, stabbed another little boy on a playground in the hopes that he would be electrocuted. Young Jamarion had no idea that Michigan didn’t have a death penalty, so he may have to…
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