Child Right Foundation was founded in 2023 by child rights advocate, Paul Martin.
The core of CRF is rooted in the reality that children are always innocent.
While abuse, neglect, and abandonment of a child by his or her parents is a harrowing reality, so are subsequent failures by entities organized to protect these vulnerable children.
With that, to end the insidious maltreatment of children, we must raise awareness and change our laws — to protect every child.
“Children have no voice in the public arena, no voting bloc in electoral politics, and no powerful moneyed interest group to advocate on their behalf. Though preventive interventions serving high risk mothers and children would be relatively inexpensive to implement and would pay for themselves many times over in the long term, most politicians' budgetary vision does not extend past the next election cycle. We are left, therefore, to pick up the pieces later on, when survivors turn to mental health professionals for help.”
- Judith Herman, MD, author, Trauma and Recovery
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Five children are killed daily in the United States due to child abuse and neglect — the equivelent of Sandy Hook School shooting, every four days.
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Child abuse and neglect leads to adult depression, anxiety, dissociation, impulsivity, aggression, hopelessness, paranoia, and inability to concentrate.
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Child abuse and neglect is the leading cause of academic failure, substance abuse, prostitution, sex trafficking, homelessness, and crime.
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A 2015 study by the National Institutes of Health determined developmental trauma (maltreatment) costs over $2 trillion, annually.
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The insidiousness of fentanyl is unlike anything this nation has ever seen. Over 5,000 students have been killed by this poison.
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Over 30% of children of abuse and neglect will be incarcerated by the age of 17 and 42% will have had a homeless experience.
