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Child Abuse
Kids Awaiting Foster Care Placement Are Being “Housed” in Jails and Offices
More than half the states in the U.S. have seen a decline in the number of licensed foster homes since 2021.
Oklahoma’s “Child Abuse” Law Doesn’t Protect Children — It Criminalizes Mothers
Instead of protecting children, an Oklahoma law incarcerates mothers for being victims of violence or poverty.
Abusive Priests Were Clustered at Mission Schools in Native Communities
A new mapping project supports claims the Church used tribal communities as "dumping grounds" for abusers.
GOP Candidate With Violent Past Has Said Gay People Are “Worthy of Death”
Scott Esk, who has a history of domestic violence and child abuse, is competing in a primary runoff in Oklahoma.
Tennessee Republicans Push a Bill That Would Circumvent Marriage Age Limits
The bill would create a new class of marriage for “one man” and “one woman.”
Socialists Take Up Critical Fight for Universal Child Care in the United States
Child care is an ineluctable social need, and has become only more so due to systematic inequality and impoverishment.
The Foster System Is a Battleground for the Racist War on Drugs
A new report exposes the foster system as rife with racist drug war attitudes and state violence.
What to Do When You Have Been Abusive
Abusers and survivors have never existed in a dichotomy. Here are some ways to confront the abuser in all of us.
UN Peacekeepers Engaged in Widespread Sexual Abuse and Exploitation in Haiti
Poverty is a key underlying factor contributing to sexual abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeeping forces.
How Can We End Child Sexual Abuse Without Prisons?
A new book shares essays by 40 Black survivors on what accountability could look like outside of the prison system.