Newsletter Archives
CHILD, Inc. published newsletters from 1984 to 2017. They are presented here in the public interest and as a resource for researchers and child advocates. Immediately below are all the digitized newsletters from the last 16 years. Further down are those older newsletters which have been scanned from their original printed hard copies.
Volume titles indicate the lead story in that issue. Other articles are listed in the Table of Contents on the front page and there are bookmarked sub-headings as well.
2017 – Idaho–worst in nation
2016
Volume 1 – Victory in Tennessee
Volume 2 – Court finds children in polygamous sect exploited
Volume 3 & 4 (combined) – The Dyer Trial
2015
Volume 1 – Tide turns against personal belief exemptions
Volume 2 – Review: Paul Offit’s ‘Bad Faith’
Volume 3 – Abuse and neglect in Twelve Tribes
Volume 4 – Court denies reimbursement for Christian Science training programs
2014
Volume 1 – Belief-related deaths of adopted children
Volume 2 – Child neglect in faith-healing sect heard by state supreme court
Volume 3 – Last Oregon Faith Death?
Volume 4 – Largest measles outbreak since 1991
2013
Volume 1 – Pennsylvania religious objectors lose a second baby
Volume 2 – Thirty years and counting (30th anniversary issue)
Volume 3 – Religion-based medical neglect kills another Oregon child
2012
Volume 1 – Washington State parents sentenced in teen’s faith death
Volume 2 – Oklahoma mom sentenced to prison in son’s faith-death
Volume 3 – Oregon Church of the Firstborn parents sentenced in son’s death
Volume 4 – Mom and baby die in anti-medical sect; grandparents win wrongful death suit
2011
Volume 1 – Victory in Oregon (A 2nd time; see Newsletter 1999 #4)
Volume 2 – Parents sentenced for Biblical chastisement
Volume 3 – Do private schools have adequate protections from child abuse?
Volume 4 – Followers sentenced to long prison terms in baby’s death
2010
Volume 1 – Followers of Christ parents sentenced in son’s death
Volume 2 – Followers charged for medical neglect
Volume 3 – First-Century Gospel case heads for trial
Volume 4 – CAPTA reauthorized; almost no improvement on CHILD’s issues
2009
Volume 1 – Supreme Court of Canada upholds transfusion order
Volume 2 – Ancient & Modern Exorcism, alias Laying on of Hands, Denounced
Volumes 3 & 4 (combined) – Church fails to get prayer-fee mandates in health care bills
2008
Volume 1 – Reckless homicide charges filed in diabetic girl’s death
Volume 2 – Massachusetts legislature again rejects church bill
Volume 3 – Belief exemptions lead to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease
2007
Volume 1 – Parents get life plus thirty years in fatal beating
Volume 2 – Pastor and trainer charged with abuse at boot camp
Volume 3 – International Cult Studies Association Conference
Volume 4 – Boy dies after refusing blood
2006
Volume 1 – Religion-based abuse claims frustrate states
Volume 2 – Defeat in Iowa again
Volume 3 – Federal court upholds metabolic screening law
Volume 4 – Behavior modification programs: A year of deaths and lawsuits
2005
Volume 1 – Nebraska Supreme Court rejects religious exemption from metabolic screening
Volume 2 – Prosecutor won’t file charges in boot camp death
Volume 3 – Indiana faith healers sentenced in baby’s death
Volume 4 – Some 2005 State Legislation
2004
Volume 1 – Methodist Church opposes corporal punishment
Volume 2 – Victory in Rhode Island
Volume 3 – Sect mother convicted of assault in baby’s starvation death
Volume 4 – More warning bells ignored by Florida lawmakers
2003
Volume 1 – Chicken Little
Volume 2 – A victory in Missouri
Volume 3 – Religious objectors let three children die
Volume 4 – Model for health laws improves
2002
Volume 1 – Testimonials of Christian Science Healing Do Not Have Scientific Value
Volume 2 – Pastor and members convicted for church whippings faith-death
Volume 3 – Arizona legislature rejects Christian Science exemption
Volume 4 – God’s law, Caesar’s law, and suffering children
Back to the beginning
The older “analog” newsletters below are provided as a rich historical record of the work and the issues that CHILD has been involved in since its inception. As you might expect, the visual quality of these older, mostly typewritten newsletters varies from issue to issue. All are readable, however, and the pdf’s are searchable.
2001
Volume 1 & 2 (combined) – Victory in Colorado
Volume 3 – Daycare charged in Florida toddler’s death; advocates call for exemption repeal
2000
Volume 1 – United Methodist Church opposes religious exemption in federal child abuse law
Volume 2 – Jehovah’s Witnesses drop prohibitions against some transfusions
Volume 3 – Nixons’ conviction upheld; CHILD filed amicus brief in case
Volume 4 – Anatomy of an acquittal
1999
Volume 1 & 2 {combined) – Florida parents charged for medical neglect
Volume 3 – Oral arguments held in CHILD suit
Volume 4 – Victory in Oregon
1998
Volume 1 – Oral arguments set in CHILD suit
Volume 2 – 90 deaths of kids found in Followers of Christ
Volume 3 – Florida boy likely suffered for hours
Volume 4 – Repeal bill introduced in Oregon
1997
Volume 1 – Justice Department realigns to CHILD’S side in suit
Volume 2 – Faith Tabernacle parents convicted for second child’s death
Volume 3 – CHILD files second suit against payments for Christian Science nursing
Volume 4 – Tetanus strikes unvaccinated Amish child
1996
Volume 1 – Liability of Christian Scientists upheld
Volume 2 – 1995 Annual Report
Volume 3 – CHILD wins ruling against public money for Christian Science nursing
Volume 4 – Federal government enacts religious exemption from parental duty of care
1995
Volume 1 – Federal court grants standing for exemption suit
Volume 2 – Lundman defendants ask High Court for review
Volume 3 – Federal government may enact religious exemption from parental duty of care
1994
Volume 1 – Victory in Massachusetts
Volume 2 – Legislative Alert: Healthcare Reform
Volume 3 – Maryland is #4
1993
Volume 1 – Tough choice saved daughter
Volume 2 – Twitchell conviction overturned; duty to get medical care upheld
Volume 3 – Jury awards $14.2 million in boy’s death
1992
Volume 1 – Victory in Hawaii
Volume 2 – Kidnapped baby returned to hospital
Volume 3 – Florida conviction of Christian Scientists overturned
Volume 4 – Struggle for children’s rights in Massachusetts
1991
Volume 1 – Suit filed against Christian Science church and agents in diabetes death
Volume 2 – Prosecutors call for repeal of religious exemptions]
Volume 3 – End Timers charged in Florida for daughter’s death
Volume 4 – Medical neglect in the context of religious beliefs (A special issue of the talk given by CHILD President at the San Diego Conference on Responding to Child Maltreatment)
1990
Volume 1 – Ohio repeals immunity laws
Volume 2 – Christian Science mom convicted of manslaughter
Volume 3 – Christian Science parents convicted of manslaughter in Boston
Volume 4 – National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse opposes religious exemptions
1989
Volume 1 – Christian Scientists convicted in daughter’s death
Volume 2 – End Time baby dies without medical care
Volume 3 – Christian Scientists guilty in daughter’s death
Volume 4 – Christian Scientists plead no contest to reckless endangerment
1988
Winter – American Academy of Pediatrics opposes religious exemptions
Spring – Promised a Miracle to air on CBS
Summer – Christian Science Parents Charged With Negligent Homicide in Arizona
Fall – Child Beaten to Deathin Oregon Commune
1987
Winter – Faith used as defense in child’s death
Spring – Second Ohio judge rules religious exemption unconstitutional
Summer – Untreated childhood infections take life of CHILD member
Fall – Convicted Faith Assembly parents agree to medical care
1986
Winter – Three Kansas childbirth deaths tied to Church of the First Born
Spring – Child of Christian Scientists dies in suburban Boston
Summer – House of Judah leaders charged with conspiracy in child’s death
Fall – Christian Scientists arrested for murder in death of diabetic child
1985
Winter – CHILD’s interest in consumer protection recognized
Spring – Another death of Christian Science child in California
Summer – Defeat in Indiana
Fall – Christian Science institutions spread another measles outbreak
1984
Spring – Greetings, CHILD, Inc. Members!
Summer – What does CHILD, Inc. Do?
Fall – Federal Victory–the long haul