Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty

Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty Abbreviation CHILD Formation 1983 Type 501(c)3 Headquarters Lexington, Kentucky, USA Focus Child neglect Key people Rita Swan, PhD, president; Ken Stringer, board chairman Website childrenshealthcare.org v t e Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD) is an American non-profit membership organization that works to stop child abuse and neglect based on religious beliefs, cultural traditions, and quackery. CHILD opposes religious exemptions from child health and safety laws. These exemptions have been used as a defense in criminal cases when parents have withheld lifesaving medical care on religious grounds. These exemptions also have discouraged reporting and investigation of religion-based medical neglect of children and spawned many outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease.[1][2] CHILD publicizes the ideological abuse and neglect of children, lobbies for equal protection laws for children, and files lawsuits and... (see more)