neglect

It’s time for policymakers, advocates, clinicians and researchers to recognize the broad role that poverty plays in neglect. 

Richard Wexler, responding to a previous Imprint op-ed, argues that there is no silence on child deaths, just a new conversation

U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore has re-introduced the Family Poverty is Not Child Neglect Act, a bill she first offered up in 2018 to revise the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, or CAPTA. 

In Texas, policy changes and state legislation have lessened the state's reliance on foster care.

Federal child maltreatment numbers from 2022 show that the level of abuse and neglect reporting in the country returned to pre-pandemic levels, while fatalities rose for a fifth year.

Reflecting a growing movement to tease out poverty from the many reasons U.S. children are taken into foster care, a new bill before Congress requires states to avoid maltreatment investigations that center solely on a family’s homelessness or lack of financial resources.

Maryland may be the first state to protect domestic abuse survivors from being charged with neglect for their child’s exposure to the abuse.

New federal data shows the number of child abuse and neglect victims declined to a record low for the third straight year.

"Neglect" is not a gateway allegation — unless you take data out of context by presenting numbers without ratios or ratios without numbers.