Jul 10, 2018 | News & Updates
Read the press release here. Today, in anticipation of World Population Day on July 11th, the national child-protection organization Having Kids called upon the United Nations Secretary General to abandon the UN’s outdated family planning modeling in favor of a...
May 15, 2018 | News & Updates
Having Kids is petitioning Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, as well as state officials, to consider the possibility of an unusual order in the event an Indiana couple is convicted of child abuse or neglect. Read the full letter here. In mid-April 2018, the Department of...
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...
Aug 29, 2017 | News & Updates, Taking Action
Imagine a parent torturing their own child. Child Protective Services takes in the child to protect him or her, and begin the long process of trying to find a foster family for the child while courts try to deal with the parent. In the middle of this long, drawn-out...