Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last three years of her life is part of a bigger, shocking tale the Federal Government will tell this week. The account is based on the most detailed look in more than a decade at some of the nation's nursing homes. "My mother experienced beating, malnutrition, dehydration and neglect," Oliva says quietly. "All three of the nursing homes are responsible for her death...
What's particularly troubling about the Pixley case is that the judges involved are not rogue thinkers. Courts across the country routinely return children to their biological parents despite prior neglect and abuse. In April a judge in New York ruled to reunite a five-year-old boy with his mother, who had killed her other son in 1994. In Figsboro, Va., a woman was allowed to retain custody of her eight-month-old daughter despite being charged with fracturing the infant's skull; the baby was stabbed to death on Mother's Day, and the mother has now been...
...pendulum may be swinging. Last year Congress passed the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which requires courts and government agencies to consider prior neglect, abuse and murder in reunification cases. States face the loss of federal child-welfare funds if they don't come into line with the act. So far, only a handful of states have amended their laws to comply. One of those is Maryland, where a group of legislators, outraged by the Pixley case, pushed a bill through this spring...
...sued and incur legal expenses. So before giving your time to a community board--and especially if you are affluent and perceived to have deep pockets--be sure you are insured. Your biggest risk is that an organization run by volunteers busy with their own lives will simply neglect to renew coverage...
...those of us who obsess over the perfect school and the perfect camp, this is a simple reminder of the immense power of a child's love, which can last through terrible neglect. So Nuala, pull up a beach chair; you too, Julia. (Bridget? Let's do lunch sometime. How's never? Never's good...