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How can we keep kids safe from danger online and at home?

PA Family Support Allliance initiates Family Digital Wellness program
By Scott LaMar/WITF

Relief for abuse survivors, other constitutional amendments halted in Pa.’s split legislature

Deep partisan differences are keeping proposals with bipartisan support from voters, including one that would give survivors of childhood sexual abuse a chance to sue their abusers.

By Kate Huangpu/Spotlight PA

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Pennsylvania tracks child abuse in ways that could be unfair, and long-lasting, study says

Researchers and legal advocates say Pennsylvania’s ChildLine registry should be abolished.
By Gabriela Martínez/WITF



It’s far too easy to be labeled a child abuser in Pennsylvania, lawsuit claims

A new lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania claims its too easy to be labeled a child abuser.

By Zoë Read/WHYY

How to protect Pennsylvania’s children from abuse and neglect

There were nearly 46 hundred substantiated cases of child abuse in Pennsylvania in 2020.

By Scott LaMar/WITF

Pennsylvania woman convicted in death of boy, 12, faces life term

Kimberly Maurer of all charges including child endangerment, involuntary manslaughter and criminal conspiracy in the May 2020 death of 12-year-old Maxwell Schollenberger.

By The Associated Press
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