Joanne Jacobs
Portland's fentanyl crisis is killing children
Children are living and dying in Portland's homeless camps, writes Naomi Schaefer Riley in City Journal. Child-welfare agencies are...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 24, 20232 min read
Pro-trans parents won't get custody edge in California
Mom wants to start "Oliver" on puberty blockers. Dad thinks "Olivia" should go through puberty before deciding whether to be male, female...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 15, 20232 min read
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, 20222 min read
'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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 9, 20221 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 13, 20221 min read
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”...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 8, 20222 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 31, 20191 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 11, 20181 min read
‘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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 30, 20182 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 21, 20171 min read
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”...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 13, 20172 min read
Backpack full of mishmash
Backpack Full of Cash, an anti-charter documentary showing at film festivals, blames charter schools for taking funding from traditional...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 30, 20171 min read
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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