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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Budget Cuts to Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Create Concern Mothering - August 28, 2017 The controversial cuts will continue to be a hot-topic. According to data from the CDC, teen pregnancy and childbirth cost taxpayers $9.4 billion in 2010. … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: & Russia: US withholding data on fate of orphaned Russian-American boy - children's rights commissioner Russia Today - August 28, 2017 The US is not providing Russia with any information on a 9-year-old boy who lost both of his parents in a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway CT: Op-Ed: There's nothing liberal in being a 'fixed cost' NCAdvertiser - August 26, 2017 How much money could state government save if, instead of social workers, children had parents prepared to support them? Why don't children have such parents? … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Philippines: Agencies join efforts for enhanced child protection Sun Star Network - August 30, 2017 The Ifugao Provincial Police Office, Department of Education, Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office, and the Provincial Health Office signed a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Israel: State reverses opposition to same-sex couples adopting children Times of Israel - August 29, 2017 The Welfare and Social Affairs Ministry has reversed its opposition to same-sex couples adopting children in Israel, less than a month after … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Should you put a newborn in a baby box? 4 questions with an expert (Includes video) Asbury Park Press - August 29, 2017 "There has been testing at the baby box companies, and it meets standards in Canada and the U.K. Irish babies and Canadian babies … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: New Research Links Increased Minimum Wage to Reduced Child Maltreatment Chronicle of Social Change - August 29, 2017 The study found that the 30 states that had exceeded the federal minimum wage by a dollar reflected a reduced risk of child welfare … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway US: Five Lessons for Implementing Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare Chronicle of Social Change - August 29, 2017 While clinicians or social workers might be good at identifying people in immediate danger, recognizing often complex patterns of "long … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NY: Post-Adoption Support Program Will Help Rockland Families New City Patch - August 29, 2017 The Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York has opened a Rockland County office to help adoptive families and relatives who have guardianship of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway Kenya: & Somalia: & Ethiopia: The effects of drought in the Horn of Africa go far beyond hunger Child Fund Alliance - August 31, 2017 After two years of below-normal rainfall, the Horn of Africa has been hit with the worst drought in over half a … [Read more...]