by Carina Nixon | Nov 10, 2022 | Blog
By Carina Nixon, Staff Attorney with CHILD USA. Child Trends recently released a study finding that, between 1993 and 2019—a span of only 26 years—the number of children living in poverty in the United States was reduced by more than half (59% to be exact). The study...
by Marci Hamilton | Oct 26, 2022 | Blog, Marci Hamilton, Vaccinations Reform
Rita Swan, who passed away on October 4, 2022, was a giant in establishing children’s civil rights to health and medical care. We at CHILD USA will miss her dearly, and, on a personal note, I have lost one of my most important mentors in the fight to save children...
by CHILD USA | Oct 20, 2022 | Bankruptcy Reform, Blog, SOL Reform
A New Orleans attorney who represents victims of clerical sexual abuse was fined $400,000 by a federal bankruptcy court judge after he alerted a local Catholic high school that a priest who worked there, Paul Hart, sexually abused a teenage student at another...
by CHILD USA | Oct 6, 2022 | Blog
CHILD USA is working every day to ensure that children have a seat at the policy table to ensure their rights are protected. But why is this something we need to fight for? At the founding of our country, only the rights of a select few were included in the...
by CHILD USA | Sep 28, 2022 | Blog
A prolific, pioneering writer and documentary filmmaker, Jason Berry’s work to reveal the Catholic Church’s cover-up of widespread sexual abuse has encompassed a good portion of his professional life. As he says, “I have worked at trying to understand the two major...
by Diane Plappert | Sep 28, 2022 | Blog
In 2002, the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team broke a story that would unleash an avalanche of disturbing revelations about the catholic church. For decades, thousands of children had been sexually abused by priests – men in positions of power, prestige, and trust....
