Dec 22, 2020 | News & Updates
The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional a probate judge’s order that an Ohio man who has 13 kids by nine mothers to avoid procreating further because he owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in child support. Polls in Ohio show that many people would...
Jul 27, 2018 | News & Updates
These are just a few of the incidents of child abuse and neglect reported around the country in the past few weeks. A man is facing charges of aggravated child abuse after his alleged “whooping” left a 4-year-old with liver and pancreas injuries, according to police...
Apr 28, 2018 | News & Updates
This week Having Kids urged officials in Florida to consider a Fair Start order in the event of a conviction of a couple charged with child abuse. Part of the media coverage of Having Kids’ letter included a response by a Florida-based civil rights attorney, Andrea...
Apr 25, 2018 | News & Updates
Today Having Kids is petitioning Gov. Rick Scott, as well as state officials and a presiding judge, to consider the possibility of an unusual order in the event a Sarasota couple is convicted of child abuse or neglect. In late January, 2018, the Department of Children...
Apr 5, 2018 | News & Updates
April is Child Abuse Prevention month and in the United States the situation is bleak. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2015 at least 683,000 children were abused or or neglected. 1,670 of those kids died. At the same time, multiple...
