Joanne Jacobs
To protect kids, treat parents' addiction, mental illness
The best predictor of children's risk of severe neglect and abuse is not poverty, writes Naomi Schaefer Riley in City Journal. It's drug...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 20, 2022
- 2 min
'Anti-adoption drumbeat' leaves kids in foster care
Naomi Schaefer Riley hears an "anti-adoption drumbeat" from the media. "In the wake of the Dobbs decision, the Left wants to make sure...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 9, 2022
- 1 min
Are schools too quick to report suspected abuse, neglect?
Teachers, counselors and other school staff are required to report suspected child abuse and neglect. In New York City, from August 2019...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 14, 2022
- 1 min
If parents take kids to drag shows, it’s not ‘abuse’
A Texas legislator wants to ban children from seeing drag queens in response to a Dallas bar’s ““family-friendly” Drag the Kids to Pride”...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 8, 2022
- 2 min
For years, a teacher groomed girls for sex
Matt Drange’s high school journalism teacher was a cut-up who always had time to hang out with students. Especially teenage girls from...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 31, 2019
- 1 min
A Cop, A Teacher, or a Preacher
I’m a high school teacher. I have a friend who’s a cop. We’ve joked for years that whenever a story of child sex abuse makes it to the...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 11, 2018
- 1 min
‘Baby, may I change your diaper?’
Deanne Carson An Aussie sex education expert says parents should ask for permission to change a child’s diaper, reports Kashmira Gander...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 30, 2018
- 2 min
The kids (many of them) aren’t alright
Family dysfunction is more common — and more devastating for children — than we think, writes Brian A. Jacob and Joseph Ryan in Education...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 21, 2017
- 1 min
All under-18 sex is abuse in Oregon
If an Oregon teacher believes that two 17-year-old students are having consensual sex with each other, she must report the “child abuse”...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 13, 2017
- 2 min
Backpack full of mishmash
Backpack Full of Cash, an anti-charter documentary showing at film festivals, blames charter schools for taking funding from traditional...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 30, 2017
- 1 min
Elder Abuse?
If anyone else were treating seniors this way–especially if the big bad were a(n evil) corporation–there would be howls of indignation. ...
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