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Florabel Kinsler dies at 83; social worker aided Holocaust survivors
After World War II, social workers typically urged Holocaust survivors to forget their horrific wartime experiences and get on with their lives. That struck Florabel Kinsler as a foolish and impossible order. During a decades-long career, the Los...
Tags: Greenwich Village, University of California, Los Angeles, California State University, Northridge, Health and Medical Professionals, Psychologists
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'With Charity for All' looks beyond the glossy appeals
Americans just love feeling philanthropic. In any debate over cutting tax breaks in the income tax system, the deduction for charitable donations is always held sacred — even more than that other sacred cow, the mortgage deduction. It's a rare...
Tags: American Red Cross, Entertainment, NYSE Euronext, Inc., Charity, U.S. Department of Defense
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To stop child deaths and abuse, 8 common-sense reforms for DCFS [Blowback]
The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services has been under much scrutiny lately, following a series of highly publicized child deaths, a disgusting case of child abuse in Palmdale and, more recently, the publication of a scathing...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Child Abuse, Hospitals and Clinics
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Letters: Social workers' crushing caseloads
Re "'Blind leading blind' at county child services," Feb. 14 Certainly, a child services worker who does not properly investigate abuse cases by asking thorough questions deserves blame. But let's look at another side. As The Times notes, a single...Tags: Abusive Behavior
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We can do more to protect children
In middle school, my daughter had a friend who'd spent most of her life in foster care. During the next few years, the girl would pass through almost a dozen foster families, group homes and probation camps. She had a habit of running away when she felt...
Tags: Teachers, Career and Workplace, Sex Crimes, Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal, Child Abuse
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Reuben Pannor dies at 90; trailblazer for open adoptions
People have an intrinsic right to know their ancestry — at least Reuben Pannor thought so. A Los Angeles social worker and trailblazer for the open-adoption movement, Pannor co-wrote "The Adoption Triangle," a 1978 book that served as the...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Labor Legislation, Pearl Jam (music group), Family, World War II (1939-1945)
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Letters: Sex abuse scandal's broken lives
Re "Charges unlikely for Mahony," "Mahony lacks atonement," Column, and "Mahony's moral obligations," Letters, Jan. 23 I got sick reading the front-page article detailing the unlikelihood that Cardinal Roger M. Mahony will face charges for concealing...
Tags: Robert J. Lopez, Roger M. Mahony, Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism, Ernest Hemingway
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Palmdale woman adopted children despite complaints
L.A. NOWA Palmdale woman who was arrested in January on suspicion of torturing her foster children was allowed to adopt despite numerous complaints.... -
Newton: Putting children first
It was nearly a year ago that Philip Browning was named head of Los Angeles County's Department of Children and Family Services. He accepted the post with some reluctance — the department has a history of controversy, and has been battered again and...
Tags: Parenting, Zev Yaroslavsky, Substance Abuse, Physical Therapy, Abusive Behavior
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A father's long battle for his daughters
Luis Ernesto Rodriguez eyed the metal door as he waited for his little girls. Now 6 and 5 years old, they were his only children, inseparable, with thick black hair and mischievous smiles that reminded people of little mermaids. More than two years...
Tags: Civil Rights, Air Transportation Delays, Basketball, The Home Depot, Justice and Rights
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Newton: Targeting an L.A. judge
Last week, when a boy in Los Angeles foster care appeared before Judge Amy Pellman, she welcomed him warmly and clearly knew his history. Pellman asked how his martial-arts class was going, complimented him on his grades and urged him to enroll in a...
Tags: Judges, Jim Newton, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Lawyers
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Newton: What dependency court delays do
In the weeks since Juvenile Court Presiding Judge Michael Nash opened this county's dependency proceedings to the press, there have been a number of revelations about a system that, until now, has been largely shielded from scrutiny. For the first time,...
Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Lawyers, Abusive Behavior
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