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The 60 Second Moral Inquiry: Isn't Exploitation of the Instinct for a Parent-Child Bond Similar to Sex Traffickers Exploitation?

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks, how is Attorney General Sessions' indifference to exploitation of the basic human instinct for parent-chi...

The Indifference Diaries, Part 3. Using Good To Create Evil, Seizing the Parent/Child Bond to Punish

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Being of the wrong lineage, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, now carries devastating consequences for the children of parents caught crossing...

How to Be Invisible, Part 2: Preventing Maltreatment By Listening to Someone Else

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Robert Indiana grew up in a home where the word love was never said., Credit: Susan Cook photo of AP photo

Our society has systematically discredited women's ability to know themselves, their bodies and their ability to parent. Child maltreatment, Harvey...

How To Be Invisible: Love Alone Does Not Prevent Child Maltreatment

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: In Robert Indiana's childhood home, the word "love" was never spoken. , Credit: Photo of AP/ Susan Cook

We know in 2018 that invisibility of the child places the child at very high risk for maltreatment. The more invisible the child, the more likely ...

The Indifference Diaries, Part 2: Giving Three Million Dollars to Corporations While Maltreated Children Wait

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Maine's children receive grossly inadequate services from Child Protective Services. Three have been murdered or had a perpetrator convicted in Mai...

On Lake Erie island, 'school bus' is a plane

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Cecilia Glauser (l) Max Schneider (r) on their plane ride to school, Credit: Margaret Thompson/ideastream

Life for students on Lake Erie's Middle Bass Island is different - starting with the morning commute to school.

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The Little Prince and His Imaginary Rose: Her Imaginary Care and The Proprietary Life

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

I’m not sure how one marries the proprietary "I give the right to life” to the “I give the right to life free from emotional and physical torment...

Like Power for Children: Presidential Politics for the Smallest

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

In a Presidential primary that taxes our belief that the purpose of government is to benefit our lives, I remember legislation that Hillary Clinton...

A Revolving Door For Deported Children

From: Fronteras Desk
Series: Removed: The Realities Of Deportation

Caption: A drawing by the American child of deported parents in Tijuana., Credit: Beth Caldwell

The majority of the 400,000 people deported from the U.S. in 2012 were adults, many with criminal records, but minors are sometimes caught up in th...

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(Optional) Part 2: Corruption in International Adoption

From: Tiny Spark
Series: Tiny Spark

This is an optional second segment, which can be added to Part 1, for a package nearing 26 mins in length. In the second segment, Tiny Spark host, ...

GNP Show 06 (Half Hour)-World Hunger and Popcorn

From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour

(To air the week of June 18,2011) According the U.N. World Food Program there are now more than a billion people in the world who are in urgent n...

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GNP Show 05 (Half Hour) Afghan Orphans

From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour

(To air the week of June 11, 2011). An orphanage in Afghanistan for descendants of Genghis Khan… …teenage refugees sing peace but get death threats...

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GNP Show 05 (One Hour) Afghan Orphans

From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour

(For air the week of June 11, 2011) Stop at a red light in Mexico and chances are young children will approach your car selling food, trinkets, or ...

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GNP Show 2 (Half hour)-8 year old Mechanics to air the week of May 21, 2011

From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour

Okay, you're on the road in Pakistan and your car breaks down. You pull into the nearest auto garage and an eight-year old kid comes out to look u...

GNP Show 2 (Full Hour)-8 year old Mechanics to air the week of May 21, 2011

From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour

Americans are struggling with high unemployment rates, but in Somaliland, it's closer to 90 percent. This week, the World Vision Report takes you t...

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