In order to protect your loved one’s rights and recover damages after nursing home abuse or neglect leaves them injured, you are going to have to prove that the nursing home was abusive or neglectful.

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – At least 1 in 7 children have experienced child abuse or neglect in the past year in the United States. Child abuse and neglect are serious public health problems that can ...

Child abuse refers to any emotional, sexual, or physical mistreatment or neglect by an adult in a role of responsibility toward someone who is under 18 years of age. It refers to any kind of action or ...

A weedy garden, a broken sidewalk, a crumbling house. A rusty car, deforestation, air pollution. What do these things have in common? They are the result of neglect. Neglect of the earth and neglect ...

Child neglect is defined as any egregious act or omission by a parent or other caregiver that deprives a child of basic age-appropriate needs and thereby results, or has reasonable potential to result ...

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 44, No. 4 (June 2016), pp. 411-417 (7 pages) Aims: Suicide rates in Latvia are among the highest in the EU. Among 18–25 year-old young adults, it is the ...

When it comes to holding adults responsible for the death of a child, prosecutors say they need to consider intent when deciding on charges. Cases where children die of neglect happen “too often,” ...