Child Support
Lessons from Penn State: Training Mandated Reporters
From a special edition of Centerpiece, the official newsletter of the National Child Protection Training Center: The recent child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University, in which multiple, well-educated professionals declined to report clear evidence of maltreatment, is not an isolated instance. Twenty years of research documents what every child protection professional in America already knows—that most people most...
James R. Marsh
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Standard of Care in Screening Adoptive, Foster and Kinship Parents
The lack of a clear legal “standard of care” for the evaluation and screening of prospective adoptive, foster, and kinship applicants directly undermines the child placement process, the physical and emotional development of children placed in adoptive and foster homes, and the adjudication of legal issues arising when children are harmed. Often, it is only when a lawsuit is filed...
James R. Marsh
http://www.marshlaw.us
Landmark Children's Rights Case Now Before the Fifth Circuit
During the past two years, victims of child pornography (represented by the Marsh Law Firm and pioneering attorneys Paul G. Cassell and Carol L. Hepburn) have been seeking restitution in federal courts throughout the country. Almost twenty years ago Congress, led by then-Senator Joe Biden, passed a law as part of the Violence Against Women Act which requires federal district...
James R. Marsh
http://www.marshlaw.us
