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Infant home visiting: families under surveillance
Source: CCHC
Author: Twila Brase, R.N., P.H.N.
Country: United States

"Home visiting, the rapidly advancing child abuse prevention strategy, is actually a family surveillance mechanism. Under the guise of child health and development, state employees observe family relationships and physical surroundings within the home."

Parents prescribe second opinion on Ritalin
Source: USA Today
Country: United States

"Educators and parents of troubled students are going to court to argue whether children need to use drugs such as Ritalin." (8/8/00)

Short Take: Feloniously fat?
Source: Civil Liberties
Author: J.D. Tuccille
Country: United States

If your kids put on love handles, should the cops seize them from you and put the babes on short rations and a work-out regimen? That's the question confronting Anamarie Martinez-Regino's parents. (9/5/00)

Support educational freedom: The Bryant family
Source: Educational Freedom
Author: Donna M.De Poalo
State: MA, Country: United States

Text of the appeal of the Bryant family for educational freedom. Suggestions for support are offered. (09/02)

The libertarian edge
Source: anti-state.com
Author: Michael Gilson-de Lemos
Country: United States

An examination of governmental control over marriages and questions about whether the government has a legitimate role in the bonding of man and wife.

Healing vs. hurting
Source: anti-state.com
Author: Diane Rhodes
Country: United States
E-mail: modern_antigone@yahoo.com

"Politicians on TV keep talking about this being an assault on America; they reassure us that the government is still working, that the government will do 'anything necessary' to protect us, to find the terrorists. I’m scared -- not of the terrorists -- but of what that means: anything necessary." (09/12/01)

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