Scarlet macaws lay as many as four eggs per clutch, but only one or two chicks survive until fledging due to parental neglect. Scarlet macaw in flight. (Credit: Zdeněk Macháček via Unsplash. NOTE: ...

Lack of parental responsibility is a recurring theme of mine. I have long argued the obvious: Many of the pressing issues in this country can be traced back to parents, more often than not a single ...

OPINION: By broadly defining abuse and neglect, CAPTA enabled the creation of a punitive child welfare system that conflated the circumstances of poverty with parental neglect, disproportionally ...

A weedy garden, a broken sidewalk, a crumbling house. A rusty car, deforestation, air pollution. What do these things have in common? They are the result of neglect. Neglect of the earth and neglect ...

I write concerning the recent bill passed by the Colorado Legislature, to provide an additional summer food program for low income kids. This was done during a special session called by the Governor ...

The issue of whether parents whose children are obese should be charged with neglect has fueled debate and generated controversial court cases, but, according to an article published this week in BMJ, ...

Family courts harm children when they base decisions on the questionable concepts of parental alienation and reunification therapy. This is the main thrust of Jean Mercer’s excellent new book, Someone ...

Supernanny host Jo Frost has warned parents that they could be ‘neglecting’ their children if they’re not supervising their young children while they brush their teeth. Last week, the government ...