Child Protection Law Reform BB

[Tom Hanna <tph3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howard Davidson mailto:davidsonha@staff.abanet.org asked me to post this,
and I am happy to do so.
--Tom
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ABA Center on Children and the Law Announces:
Members of this listserv may be interested in knowing about a new place on
the World Wide Web where people can both post messages and comment upon
previously posted messages regarding the improvement of interventions in
child abuse and neglect cases.  This child protection law reform "WebBoard"
is managed by the ABA Center on Children and the Law.   One need not be a
lawyer or judge to view, create, and react to messages.

More importantly, for those of you whose e-mail boxes are often overflowing,
no messages from this "WebBoard" will ever come into your e-mail mailbox
unless you want them to (the messages themselves reside only on the
website).  So you can make, look at, and respond to messages at your
leisure.

Why not give this "Child Protection Law Reform Bulletin Board" a look?
Here's how you get to it.
http://www.abanet.org/child/share.html

When you enter the site, click the left side vertical menu item on our home
page that is entitled:  "Child Protection Law Reform Bulletin Board."
You'll then be sent to a page of ground rules for use of our "WebBoard", and
if you agree to these, you'll click to enter the bulletin board and will
then be further instructed on its use.

This is a opportunity to promote a sharing of ideas on how laws, government
agency practices, and court procedures can better address both prevention
and intervention in child abuse and neglect cases (the first message, for
example, raises the issue of newly proposed laws to provide criminal
immunity to parents who "abandon" their newborns in safe locations).

But feel free to start your own message "thread" with your own ideas for
legal, child protection agency, or court reform.

See you on "the Web."
-- Howard Davidson
Director, ABA Center on Children and the Law
American Bar Association, 740 15th Street, NW, Washington,DC 20005
202/662-1740  Fax:202/662-1755  davidsonha@staff.abanet.org
Center's Web Address:  http://www.abanet.org/child

	In the little world in which children have their existence,
whosoever brings them up,
there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
-- Great Expectations  Charles Dickens (1850)
	A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--
not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now --
today.
-- How to Love a Child  Janusz Korczak (1918)
	[Governments] shall take all appropriate...measures to protect the
child from all forms of
physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent
treatment, maltreatment or exploitation...
-- Article 19  Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)