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The Child Protection eNewsletter
 The
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) (http://www.cwla.org)
is about to release a report called "Children Missing from
Care" about children the nation's foster care system has "lost."
http://tinyurl.com/3hvja
The report will claim that hundreds of kids are missing, and that
5% of the children over 12 in the system have disappeared or run
away for substantial periods of time. There are 500,000 American
children in foster care at any given point in time. For more information
on becoming a foster parent, visit the National Foster Parent Association
at http://tinyurl.com/6dpv5
 Child
Trends (http://www.childtrends.org)
has released a report titled "Grandma and Grandpa Taking Care
of the Kids: Patterns of Involvement." http://tinyurl.com/6ooxq
The report claims that 54% of grandmothers and 38% of grandfathers
provide child care to their young grandchildren who live nearby
on a regular basis. In fact, they spend an average of 23 hours a
week doing so. http://tinyurl.com/56lwg
A U.S. Department of Education study by Hofstra University (http://tinyurl.com/6mtrs
and http://tinyurl.com/4f6dq)
has come under fire for interchanging "sexual abuse" and
"sexual misconduct" so broadly as to include inappropriate
"gestures" or "looks." http://tinyurl.com/3unrt
Further, the 9.6% figure the study claims are subjected to "unwanted
sexual advances" at school, apparently comes from a four year
old American Association of University Women study which asked "during
your whole school life, how often, if at all, has anyone (this includes
students, teachers, other school employees, or anyone else) done
the following things to you when you did not want them to? Made
sexual comments, jokes, gesture or looks." The real news here
is that the figure is so low.
President Bush accused Fidel Castro of exploiting Cuban children
by encouraging sex tourism. http://tinyurl.com/7xrug.
The State Department lists Cuba as one of ten countries that encourage
the sex tourism industry. For more information on the campaign to
combat trafficking in persons, visit the State Department site at
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/.
A Brazilian crackdown of child sex abuse rings has netted 200 people
including prominent businessmen, five priests, a Vice Governor,
two state deputies and three mayors. http://tinyurl.com/6lwot
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