Trump’s War on Children: DOGE Guts Head Start, Child Abuse Programs, Healthcare & More

Trump’s War on Children: DOGE Guts Head Start, Child Abuse Programs, Healthcare & More
"Now, the Jackson family, alongside the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas, announced on Tuesday that they have sued the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), challenging several policies that they argue undermine due process rights and violate state and constitutional law."
https://19thnews.org/2025/04/texas-cps-mila-jackson-newborn-lawsuit/
But hey, let's make family planning and abortions illegal so we can STARVE more children!!! smh
Trump's #WarOnChildren: #DOGE Guts #HeadStart, #ChildAbuse Programs, #Healthcare & More
"Entire teams based at the CDC's injury center that focused on motor vehicle crashes, child maltreatment, rape prevention and education, drowning, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other issues were eliminated.
'A lot of the work we do will not be picked up by anyone else,' one senior health scientist who lost their job tells NPR."
I don't have anything nice to say, so I'm going to leave it at that.
Go read up on how the Robert Finn case was handled if you want to understand better why I feel this way.
The Osaka District Court on Monday acquitted a 35-year-old mother of charges of habitual assault and fraud after she was accused of hospitalizing her daughter, then 8, by not feeding her properly for mutual aid money. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/21/japan/japan-child-abuse-ruling/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #japanesecourts #osaka #childabuse
Coalition promises trial of child sex offender register
By Jake Evans
The Coalition says if it is wins government it will trial a national child sex offender register that will allow members of the public to request information from police about whether someone who interacts with their children is a convicted offender.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-21/coalition-promises-child-sex-offender-register/105196454
A secretive San Francisco panel tasked with reviewing clergy abuse allegations returned more than half of the accused priests back to work, including one who faced five complaints #catholic #Catholicism #christian #christianity #predator #predators #rape #abuse #childabuse #clergy #crime #criminal #criminals
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/priest-abuse-archdiocese-20277287.php
The Upper House passed a revised bill on Friday allowing authorities to restrict welfare facility visits from parents suspected of abusing their child. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/18/japan/society/child-abuse-visitation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #childabuse #parents #children #daycare
“Referring to the Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans, the institution that employed and protected Hecker for decades and kept doing so even after the cleric admitted he had preyed sexually on minors throughout his career, Duhon added: “I hope they get some type of criminal charge.””
#CatholicChurch #ChildAbuse #Accountability #NewOrleans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/new-orleans-clergy-abuse-survivor-neil-duhon
Kremlin to revive Soviet-era Komsomol school to indoctrinate youth
Russian govt to open a #political education workshop for youth that will be analogous to #Soviet-era Higher Komsomol School, which #indoctrinated young #Communist Party members
#Komsomol was a youth division (ages 14-28) of Communist Party during Soviet times
https://kyivindependent.com/kremlin-to-revive-soviet-era-komsomol-school-to-indoctrinate-youth/
Imagine giving your child a whole bunch of substances, without knowing, how each affects them individually, how sensitive they are to that substance, how those substances might interact and who may be unable to articulate how they are/feel affected and who can't refuse.
This is a form of abuse and people would care much more about it, if "normal human" children would be affected, instead of disabled "defective objects".
5/5
Imagine killing off your kid for some cult clout? The thing is, parents like this don’t actually care about their kids. They have them for the welfare benefits or the social capital. By the time they become toddlers they start to get their own personalities, then the parents who want them to be possessions instead of people don’t like them anymore. This is how they get rid of them without going to jail.
“‘I know it's not effective because some family members ended up getting the vaccine, and they got the measles way worse than some of my kids,’ said Hildebrand. ‘The vaccine was not effective.’”
His comments came just one day after burying Daisy and sharing a meal with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who, according to Hildebrand, never directly addressed the vaccine's efficacy during the visit.
Anti-Vaxx Dad Whose Daughter Died of #Measles Says Vaccinated Relatives Got Disease 'Way Worse' Than His Kids https://www.latintimes.com/anti-vaxx-dad-whose-daughter-died-measles-says-vaccinated-relatives-got-disease-way-worse-his-580367
#VaccinesWork #ChildAbuse
This month on The Comfortable Spot #Podcast I sat down with Brian Milne, a social anthropologist specialising in children's human rights. We delved into the plight of children in conflict zones and society's response. #RightsOfTheChild #ChildAbuse #childslavery #childrights #UN #childlabor #Palestine #Ukraine #RussiaWarCrimes #IsraeliWarCrimes
Listen here: https://thecomfortablespotpodcast.com/2025/03/16/brian-milne/
Child predators are lurking on dating apps, warns report https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/04/child-predators-are-lurking-on-dating-apps-warns-report #Searchlight2025 #childabuse #datingapps #News
European police dismantle a child abuse image network.
Polish police have announced the dismantling of a vast online network for images of child sexual abuse, an operation carried out in cooperation with 11 other European countries.
The operation - codenamed FEVER - led to the arrest of 166 people across Europe, including 98 in Poland.
HUGE MASSIVE TW for #childAbuse #forcedConfinement #torture #starvation but if you are willing, read this story @Nonilex is recounting:
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114303963305056396
it’s of a twenty-something man who had to almost burn down his house to be rescued. he was imprisoned by his parents, in his room, +20 years.
this is what happens when people are forced to have children they do not want.
have said before: AMERICANS HATE CHILDREN.
tis yet another head in the hydra of American #Fascism.