Apr 27, 2018 | News & Updates
Since 1983, the month of April has been designated Child Abuse Prevention month in the US. Although there is certainly more awareness about child abuse today – 35 years later – the number of cases of abuse and neglect continues to rise. Having Kids is...
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...
Dec 21, 2017 | News & Updates, Taking Action
Updated March 25, 2018 Taking Child Abuse Seriously Through Better Family Planning Two parents left their nine-month-old twin daughters, who each weighed about eight pounds when investigators found them, to starve to death in playpens filled with maggots. The couple...
Sep 25, 2017 | News & Updates
Having Kids is working to replace parent-centered family planning with the child-centered Fair Start model. Why? Some of the worst consequences of parent-centered family planning are the many abused and neglected children it creates and subsequently ignores. Because...
