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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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Our children are our future. That is almost trite it is so obvious. So why has our President done almost everything he could to make life for the least fortunate of our children even worse than it is? I fear he has lost his soul to the service of special interest groups, and wishes to reserve all of the funds he can for their service and for the cause of war. Please do not allow this to go on. We are not barbarians. We are Americans, and that means that we defend the innocent. Period.
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Someone needs to be the voice to advocate for children.
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Help is only for the elite? The elite are so because of the common. The mind is not so different. This is the message we understand. Cynicism.
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We need to protect our youngest Americans from those who should be caring for them the most.
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I personally have 2 children. I look at them on a daily basis and wonder how anyone could ever harm a child. I am on the board for Prevent Child Abuse and this is something that is very important to me. Our children need this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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PROTECT THE INNOCENT AND DEFENSELESS.
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Child abuse is extremely harmful and can cause permanent psychological and physical problems.
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Children are so innocent and they need the support of everyone, including congress to pass laws and provide money to help various organizations who are the "watch dogs" and the ones who provide help when the damage is discovered. Congress, do you have children (young) and grandchildren that each one of you want to protect? Here is your opportunity to reach out and touch and help the lives of our children in a major way!! Don't let the children down!!!! They NEED your HELP, NOW! Bonnie
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Children deserve loving homes with parents who care & love them. When they suffer from abuse, it not only hurts them phyiscally, it hurts them mentally too. Children are helpless and depend on their family to guide them and raise them to know right from wrong. Child abuse is very wrong! We need to protect all children from this happening!!
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Because it makes so much sense to PREVENT child abuse before it can happen.
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they are our future.. we must treat them well
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Please protect and increase funding to fight against violence against and neglect of young children. HOWEVER, we must not get carried away. A loving parent who smokes cigarettes SHOULD NOT be considered abusive. I have seen cases in which a child was removed from the home or a parent lost custodial rights only because of smoking. That's not right either. That said, lock up the bastards who prey on children and throw away the keys! If you beat, starve, molest or continually berate a child, you don't deserve that child and the child should be removed AND NOT RETURNED! And if violence was involved, the criminal should spend time in jail.
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We need to prevent this in our society. We have the funds available. Stop putting all of our money into national defense and help the people where it counts! Children of today are our future tommorow!
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Please care for these who are the most vulnerable in our country and increase the budget for all programs supported by CAPTA. There is no doubt that this is clearly one of most American's top priorities.
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Child abusers need to be accountable for their actions in a way that will prevent them from abusing over and over and over again. You are also guilty if you do not pass stronger laws.
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Please listen to the cries of the children, lobby for the children. if not now when?
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We can not keep doing this to children, some where along the line a government official needs to stand up and do the right things pass the right bills and not turn their back on them 2 months later. The funds can not take any more abuse, or neglect, we must save our future.
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8:34 am PDT, May 12,
Angel Saulter, Michigan
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too many children have such a great gift,& we need to help all those who need it. God put us here to lead them,to show them right and wrong.If they are abused & can not learn this, this is why the cycle must stop. If we don't stand up to these bullies,who will ever show the children abuse is very wrong. That what happened to them is terrible.
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Because it's the right thing to do.