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Ensure Children Have Safe and Healthy Homes
Target: U.S. CongressSponsored by: American Humane Association
The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) was passed in 1974 because of increasing public awareness of the need to ensure the safety and welfare of children. CAPTA provides federal money to state and local communities like yours for programs and services to prevent abuse, protect children and strengthen families.
Each year, almost 1 million American children experience abuse and neglect. Of these children, 60 percent suffer neglect, 19 percent physical abuse, 10 percent sexual abuse, and 7 percent emotional maltreatment. All of these forms of abuse can have a lifelong psychological and physical impact on a child. And shockingly, approximately 1400 children are killed each year from abuse, most of whom are under the age of one.
Every five years, CAPTA gets reauthorized. This year it is up for review again. President Bush has already cut many important human service programs in this year's budget (including domestic violence and juvenile justice funds). We need your help to ensure these cuts do not affect the safety of children.
Please ask Congress to not only maintain current funding levels, but to increase funding to keep up with today's economy, so that all children can live in safe and healthy homes.
Each year, almost 1 million American children experience abuse and neglect. Of these children, 60 percent suffer neglect, 19 percent physical abuse, 10 percent sexual abuse, and 7 percent emotional maltreatment. All of these forms of abuse can have a lifelong psychological and physical impact on a child. And shockingly, approximately 1400 children are killed each year from abuse, most of whom are under the age of one.
Every five years, CAPTA gets reauthorized. This year it is up for review again. President Bush has already cut many important human service programs in this year's budget (including domestic violence and juvenile justice funds). We need your help to ensure these cuts do not affect the safety of children.
Please ask Congress to not only maintain current funding levels, but to increase funding to keep up with today's economy, so that all children can live in safe and healthy homes.
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There are helpless kids out there that need our help everyday.
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its wrong
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Children are our future and we need to protect this precious resource, we can not just change the channel and turn a blind eye to what is happening. Social workers are over worked with increasing case loads they need help to monitor these children to keep them safe. These children were already hurt once by someone, we are suppose to be taking them from a bad situtation, and protecting them from future harm. Not placing in a home with people who will further hurt them or possibly kill them. Better screening and monitoring of foster homes needs to be done. Counseling and psychological treatment for the children needs to be made (group therpy with other children who have been in the same situation would work to keep down cost and help with the healing process knowing they are not alone). The first time abuse is reported that parent should have to be moniter, attend counseling, before the child is allowed back into the home. And harsher punishment for false reporting which ties up the system and prevents real crimes against children from being prevented.
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Programs preventing abuse employ dedicated social workers who improve society.
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BecauSe my mother never protected me when my father starting beating me. As an adult and after years of therapy, I was told he was a rage-aholic...no wonder I had a drinking problem. She never proteced me BECAUSEE SHE LOST HER PARENTS AT 14 YR OLD. nO ONE PROTECTED ME....
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Child abuse is unaaceptable! Children are the most vulnerable human beings, because they depend on adults to take care of them, as well as protect them from harm.
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First, these kids get hurt by an individual. Next, they get abused by the police and attorney's who want not the child's welfare but an arrest and a conviction. Then, they become damaged goods, problem placements, and untouchable because all touch has become suspect. Like women who have been raped, people often believe that these kids somehow caused their victimization. Since it's become an urban myth that children who are abused are likely to become abusers themselves, please imagine what happens when these once cute and vulnerable kids become adults and are booted out of the home that reluctantly accepted them. Putting money toward their care would be one tiny step telling these kids and their reluctant caregivers that these kids are NOT garbage.
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Abuse often occurs as a chain of events. Abusers were often abused as children. Preventing this evil crime instead of simply prosecuting it would help to stop the chain of events that leads to social destruction.
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Children our the most important part of our country and need to be loved and kept safe.
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Do we really have to go over this? It is an uncecessary tragedy that should have the highest punishments and prevention methods for the most innocent of Americans, those that hold the future of our country in their hands.
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You can't watch the news today without seeing yet another story of child abuse.
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How can we be in the year 2008 and not protect our children? This should be our absolute priority. We should all be doing everything we can to stop the abuse of children. Do any of us want to meet our Maker one day and have to admit to having done nothing to help God's children?
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I have worked for 30 years as a professional and advocate for children and families. We continue to have children placed in foster care in huge numbers. Many continue to stay there for much of their growing up years so that we victimize them in that way and end up with very troubled young people. Investing in children at a young age is the only answer...early intervention and support to families is a proven intervention...that takes money and support from not just states, but the federal government. Please do your part by allocating funds, not just for war but for building lives.
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IT IS WRONG TO NOT PROTECT OUR CHILDREN FROM ABUSE.CONGRESS NEED TO GET TOUGH ON CHILD ABUSE.THEY ARE THE FUTURE TOO.MONEY NEED TO BE SPEND ON OURS KIDS NOT IN IRAQ.OUR KIDS COMES FIRST.
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It is a disgrace that the U.S. is not adequately funding the needed resources to protect all of our children and youth. The costs of this neglect will be seen not only in human terms of suffering of some of our most vulnerable young citizens, but also in the loss of some of our future human resources. Neglected and abused children often do not end up being productive, contributing members of our communities and country. We need to put more dollars into prevention services/programs, or we will need to spend even more in building more prisons and trying to repair damaged lives of these neglected and abused children.
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Dogs and animals are more protected from abuse than our children are. I do not mean disciplining children...I mean sexual abuse, locking them in closets, even murder and beating them. Children are innocent and adults should not be allowed to torture them. I despise this. Jesus said, "let the little children come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven." Do these people not realize they are going to end up in Hell, or do they not care?
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These children need a voice.
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No price will ever be too high for our childrens safety. We can not allow any child to suffer any type of abuse. Very few of us step up and personally do anything for these kids so we MUST have someone looking out for them when we are unable to. That is where the CAPTA comes in. If they wont do it who will?
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Obviously, the spending that would be authorized by this legislation is significant, but it is only a small proportion of what we spend for our occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. If our military expenditures were reduced to a responsible level, we could much more readily invest in CAPTA and in so many other much needed domestic programs and infrastructure improvements. Please seek to change our priorities to enable proper and necessary investments to be made in our domestic well-being.
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10:37 pm PDT, May 9,
Sandra Aviles, Puerto Rico
Children are our hope, our future...innocent beings target of all humanity's mishaps, creatures who did not ask to be born, therefore, should be protected by all from physical/ emotional/ sexual abuse, medical & institutional neglect of all sorts and mainly our indifference. |
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It is a shame with all the technology we have at our disposal, that child abuse is still a problem. I think all agencies should share information, I think once abuse has been founded that those people should lose their right to privacy and should have cameras and audio installed and monitored during the rehabilitation phase of parent and child reuniting. We need prevention so these children can grow-up heathy and safe.
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I find it physically painful to view wounded children. This terrible crime is not new but few have made any effort against it. We are finally acknowledging how destructive these practices are, and must do all we can to insure safe childhoods. I've read Frued's whole theory of the ID and the ego, is based on his contemplation of bodies of children in Morgues killed at the hands of their families. I believe along with math and reading we should insist our children learn about functional families and parenting. This could be the most valuable social skill a person could learn.
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