Child Protection Lessons

A look at the lessons that arise from child protection errors and other issues including those that arise from deaths of children involved in systems in the western world.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Post partum depression as a child protection issue

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Post partum depression (PPD) occurs in about 20 - 25% of women after giving birth. Some level of the "baby blues" might well occu...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Alcohol and Pregnancy

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Anyone who works in child protection knows that Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is a prevalent and devastating disorder that brings life lo...
Friday, April 12, 2013

The true experience of being falsely accused

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We hear stories of people being falsely accused of sexual abuse. In the wake of Jimmy Savile, Jerry Sandusky, Theoren Fleury, Sheldon Kenne...
Monday, April 8, 2013

Child protection must present an unbiased view

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A recent judgment in Nova Scotia raises some crucial issues for social workers and their lawyers who are presenting applications in court. ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Victoria's Secret Bright Young Things

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One might immediately wonder what the economic enterprise of the Bright Young Things line of clothing has to do with child protection. Befo...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Apparently not all trauma is created equal

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I am fascinated by a new study just published by Hickman et al., in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. As the abstract notes, the resea...
Thursday, March 7, 2013

Rape from two powerful perspectives

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Friends in India at the Tulir Centre for Prevention and Healing of Sexual Abuse brought two stories to my attention. In the first one, Amer...
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