Here is the next public health crisis that will demand bureaucratic solutions, government intervention, and the federalization of Child Protective Services: child abuse. This article on MSN Health presents some statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that appears to set the pace for federal oversight of snatching children from homes to force them into [...]

Here’s another way for the government-media safety parade propaganda machine to sell folks on the dangers of biological parents and the “safety” of our government parents: thanks to parental negligence, kids bring “unsafe” lunches to school that are ripe for bacteria. As usual, researchers study something – anything – that is insignificant and turn the [...]

Young kids, with nothing better to do, barely making the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. Horrors! And in sweeps the Feds to save the day. Two of the southwest Washington state growers cited with fines – George Hoffman Farms and Berry Good Farms – were found to be in violation of minimum wages [...]

A double-agent of the state (cop and politician) has a creepy message for parents.  The state senator and former NYC cop shows you how to spy on your children (defined as protecting your home and family).

Now this one reads like a late-night TV skit. Kids shouldn’t walk to school anymore because we all must live in fear. Kids are in danger from predators, narrow sidewalks (!), and unclear signage. From the article: In 2009, Children’s Medical Center admitted 101 children into its trauma department for pedestrian injuries. For each of those, [...]

The message is undeviating: American kids are prone to panic attacks, anxiety, aggressive behavior, learning and memory problems, obesity, depression, suicide, and now insomnia (or sleep problems)? According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, sleep becomes the correlation that implies causation. Instead of blaming it on the computer and TV – though surely [...]

There have been so many stories over recent years about the state stepping in to take away children because they (the children and/or the parents) are too fat. There’s this recent story on FOX about the couple in Scotland who had their seven children removed from the home (blogged on LewRockwell.com) Formerly, the state used charges [...]

Apparently, in Michigan, babysitting is considered daycare, and therefore requires state licensing and regulation. After posting about illegal babysitting (childminding) in England, four people sent this recent article about a Michigan woman, Lisa Snyder, who incurred the wrath of the Department of Human Services for watching over her neighbor’s children for the short time period after [...]

More stimulus jobs for FEMA bureaucrats. WASHINGTON, D.C. — While testifying before the Senate Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery today, the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate announced the creation of a “Children’s Working Group.” …”It is time for special needs populations, whether children or any other segment [...]