Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty USA

CHILD USA is investigating sexual abuse in youth sports programs to ensure sports organizations protect our children – rather than harm them.
Child athletes appear to face a higher rate of abuse and neglect than the average child. We’re asking why – and what can be done to prevent it.
We Investigate and devise the best policies for protection: youth sports programs, high school and college athletics, the incidence of sexual abuse and neglect among elite or Olympic-level athletes; as well as professional sports, from the NFL and MLB to the NBA and NHL, which set examples and goals for child athletes.

Conversion therapy is a practice that is intended to change the sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression of individuals who identify as LGBT (Mallory et al., 2018).

CHILD USA’s legal and social science research in the field underscores the need to carry on Rita Swan’s legacy by continuing to shine a light on the medical and vaccination exemptions that harm children. If a test or screening is beneficial enough that policymakers require it for most children, all children should be afforded that benefit, regardless of the religious beliefs of their parents. As the Supreme Court eloquently stated, parents may not make martyrs of their children.

Educational Neglect is defined as failure to send child to school/prevent child from getting education (Mennen et al. 2010). Educational neglect has not yet achieved the same level of study or recognition as other forms of child abuse, maltreatment, and neglect. Currently, only twenty-four states (including the District of Columbia) include educational neglect in their definitions of abuse.[1]. The following all fall under the definition of Educational Neglect:
Allowing a child to miss too much school
Failing to enrolling a child in school
Failing to provide comparable home-based education
Keeping a child from special education services

Child marriage, defined as a marriage between a child under the age of 18 and an adult or another child, is a global problem and is a far more common practice than many believe. While the prevalence of child marriage has decreased worldwide – from one in four girls married a decade ago to approximately one in five today – the practice remains widespread, including here in the United States.

Since there is no federal law regarding child marriage, states are free to establish their own requirements. Child marriage remains legal in 46 states. More than half of the states permit child marriage with either parental or judicial consent. Other states have religious or pregnancy exceptions, permitting the practice to continue. Only four states–Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota— have banned child marriage outright.

Child marriage is a gendered practice with grave social, financial, physical, and psychological consequences. The United States State Department has called marriage before 18 a “humans rights abuse” that “produces devastating repercussions for a girl’s life, effectively ending her childhood.” In order to protect children and secure their futures, the practice of child marriage must be outlawed. The movement to end child marriage and sex abuse in the United States is growing at this time, and CHILD USA is dedicated to reforming the laws to ensure children are not married before the age of 18.

CSA is “a form of child abuse that includes sexual activity with a minor.” A child cannot consent to any form of sexual activity, period. When a perpetrator engages with a child this way, they are committing a crime that can have lasting effects on the victim for years. Child sexual abuse does not need to include physical contact between a perpetrator and a child. Some forms of child sexual abuse include:
Exhibitionism, or exposing oneself to a minor
Fondling
Intercourse
Masturbation in the presence of a minor or forcing the minor to masturbate
Obscene phone calls, text messages, or digital interaction
Producing, owning, or sharing pornographic images or movies of children
Sex of any kind with a minor, including vaginal, oral, or anal
Sex trafficking
Any other sexual conduct that is harmful to a child’s mental, emotional, or physical welfare”

Sex trafficking is “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act…” 22 U.S.C. § 7102(12).

When a defendant “benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture which has engaged in” one of the sex trafficking crimes, they are liable for sex trafficking. 18 U.S.C. § 1591 (a)(2).Severe sex trafficking is “[s]ex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is INDUCED BY FORCE, FRAUD, OR COERCION, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age.” 22 U.S.C. § 7102(11)(a) (emphasis added).

Elements of Severe Sex Trafficking:
Means: force, fraud, or coercion
Act: Inducement, recruitment, harboring, transportation, providing, obtaining
Purpose: Commercial Sex