Children – General Issues
General Information About Children Issues
- Appellate Court Upholds Denial of "Incompetent" Lawyer's 6-figure Fee (JD Journal – 1/7/09)
In 2003, Zuhua Chen retained Goldman to represent her and her infant son, David, who suffered severe brain damage and other medical problems at birth that will require ongoing supervision and treatment for the rest of his life. Goldman won a $2.4 million medical malpractice case, but was found to have failed to investigate the future needs of his child client, and to have overcharged his client. - Bedtime Reading for Children (7/25/17)
Bedtime stories play an important role in your child’s development. Not only do bedtime stories create an opportunity for parents to bond with their kids, but reading to a little one at the same time night after night can help them establish a healthy sleep routine. - Building Assertiveness: How to Help Your Quiet Child Speak Up (7/6/16)
Try these strategies to help your quiet ones learn to stand up to negative behavior. - Communication Skills for Parents (About.com)
An important skill for parents to master is "active listening." When parents listen actively, they send children the message that they are important enough to have the parent's undivided attention. Many problems can be solved and even prevented when parents take the time to use active listening. Importantly, when a parent is an active listener, she is able to guide children to solve problems for themselves. Here are steps to master this listening skill. - Encouraging Physical Activity at Home (Your Therapy Source – 11/9/10)
Let's face it growing up today is not the same as it used to be. The children in the United States are becoming less and less active. Many children today ride the bus to school, ride the bus home and play indoors (mostly television, video game and computer use). The extracurricular physical activities in a child's life are mostly organized sports. Pediatric occupational and physical therapists can encourage physical activity as a leisure activity leading to a healthier lifestyle for all children. - Enforcing a Child Support Order Out of State (lawinfo.com)
While a parent living out of state may make enforcing your child support order a bit tricky, it certainly doesn’t make it impossible. - Keeping the Promise: The Critical Need for Post-Adoption Services to Enable Children and Families to Succeed (Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute)
Over the last two decades, our nation has seen steep increases in the number of adoptions from foster care in the United States and from orphanages abroad – which, combined, make up the vast majority of non-stepparent adoptions; i.e., we have made considerable progress in finding enduring families for girls and boys who have suffered from abuse, neglect, multiple placements, institutionalization and other pre-adoption experiences that can cause them physical, psychological, emotional and developmental harm. Now the paradigm has to shift, and our priority must be not only to achieve permanency, but also to assure that adoptive parents receive the supports they need to raise their children to healthy adulthood. - Office of Child Support Enforcement
The Office of Child Support Enforcement provides more services than people generally see. We launched a new column in the Child Support Report newsletter called A Look Inside OCSE. These articles highlight tasks that federal child support staff handle. - Ready, Set, Fly! (Casey Family Programs)
Parents, teachers and therapists who instruct teens and young adults, may want to check out Ready, Set , Fly – A Parents Guide to Teaching Life Skills. This electronic book was created with foster parents in mind in particular but it is very useful for all parents and therapists. The activities are graded using different levels based on age (activities are developed for children ages 8 years old and up). - Screen Time and Attention Span (Your Therapy Source – 7/7/10)
Pediatrics will be publishing a study on the effects of television and video gaming on attention problems. One thousand three hundred twenty three children (6-12 years old) were followed for 13 months. Television and video gaming use were recorded. The average screen time use (TV and video games) was 4.26 hours. Teachers reported on attention problems in students. The results indicated that exposure to television and video games was associated with attention problems in middle childhood. The association existed for television and video game use. - Solutions to Help Transitioning Youth (Children's Bureau Express)
The National Resource Center for Youth Development (NRCYD) hosts a one-stop-shop resource center for child welfare professionals and agencies working with transitioning youth. Research is also available on court-involved youth, youth at risk of court involvement, Native American youth, youth with disabilities, and the lesbian, gay, transgendered, and questioning youth population. - Supportive Housing and Child Welfare Outcomes (Children's Bureau Express)
The provision of concrete services, such as housing, can have a positive impact on child welfare outcomes. A new publication by the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) highlights results from a longitudinal study in Minnesota evaluating the role of supportive housing on homeless children's well-being, specifically, educational and child welfare outcomes.
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