Archive
Two decades of reporting on children inside U.S. child welfare systems, 2005 to today. Every item carries its provenance inline: who wrote it, when, and what kind of evidence it is.
Articles are republished as written, with original news citations preserved. No images from the original corpus appear in any form. Where a piece names a specific child, the case is already part of the public record — see our editorial policy. To find a specific state, county, or case, the search is faster than paging; each state page carries its own archive alongside its numbers.
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- America: 20 Times More Gun Homicides Than The Rest Of The Developed World
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 10, 2013
- Protect Our Kids Act Passed By Congress (with tiny funding; 2M)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 7, 2013
- Planned Evacuation Routes, Teachers Packing Heat (what's next, Uzi's?)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJanuary 5, 2013
- Better Record Keeping & Higher Standards For Tracking Child Maltreatment & Protection
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 31, 2012
- Healing Through Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy (or, things I stole from the Surviving Spirit Website)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 29, 2012
- Child Welfare Policies That U.S. Shun; A Note From David Strand (share this with your state rep)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 28, 2012
- Join Me For A Grand Time & A Great Cause At the CASA MInnesota Auction & Wine Tasting Fundraiser (January 10th)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 22, 2012
- Reducing Violence Against Children; Protect Our Kids Act (contact your senator today)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 20, 2012
- Focus On Texas, California, & Florida Child Welfare
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 19, 2012
- Pounding On Children (the beatings continue)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 17, 2012
- Our Only Hope For A Safe, Livable America; Talking About Mental Health
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 16, 2012
- CASA Minnesota Wine Tasting & Silent Auction For a Great Cause (Stop By & Say Hi - January 10th, Buy Your Ticket Today)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 13, 2012
- Children Living Under Bridges
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 12, 2012
- Bastards; How Yesterday’s Rejection Of The Disabilities Treaty Damages America’s Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 5, 2012
- Thank You Houston Texan Receiver Andre Johnson
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 4, 2012
- Another Asset For Protecting Children; The Law
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 3, 2012
- CASA Guardian ad-Litem January 10th Wine Tasting Fund Raiser
KARA reportingMike TikkanenDecember 3, 2012
- Promoting Prisons As Public Policy
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 30, 2012
- A Response To Harsh & Unfair Comments Made By Unhappy Readers
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 16, 2012
- Domestic Violence Through A Five Year Old's Eyes
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 15, 2012
- Make Sure All Minnesota Children Have A Loving Home
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 13, 2012
- Following Up On The 7 Year Old Foster Boy That Hung Himself & Left An Anti-Prozac Note
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 11, 2012
- According To The Numbers, Child Abuse In MN; Safe Passage For Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 7, 2012
- Defining Democracy By How It Treats A State Ward Child
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 5, 2012
- America The Beautiful (unless you're born an at risk child)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 5, 2012
- A Law Late In Coming, Not Enough, But Glad It's Here (Thank You Governor Mark Dayton)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenNovember 4, 2012
- Abused Children In MN
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 29, 2012
- CASA Fundraiser Date Change (Save the Date - Auction Items Needed)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 28, 2012
- Indiana Update (current child protection news - thanks again Mitch Daniels)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 19, 2012
- A Great Minnesota Network: Minnesota Adoption Resource Network
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 15, 2012
- AARP vs. Five Year Olds (Abandoning America's Children)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 10, 2012
- Arkansas Politics; Death Penalty For Rebellious Children, Charlie Fuqua & His Bible
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 8, 2012
- What David Brooks Didn’t Say
KARA reportingMike TikkanenOctober 2, 2012
- Speaking From The Heart In Reno
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 26, 2012
- Washoe County Nevada CASA Recognition Dinner Weds Sept 19th Keynote Speaker Mike Tikkanen
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 15, 2012
- Great CASA story
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 9, 2012
- Cruel & False Savings Are Cheating America’s Abused & Neglected Children (again)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 9, 2012
- When Submitting Comments The Use Of Names Can Be Problematic
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 9, 2012
- Best Interests Of The Child; ICWA, Politics, & Media
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 7, 2012
- Everything Seems To Be Wrong With Them; The Other America
KARA reportingMike TikkanenSeptember 3, 2012
- Indiana's At Risk Children & Governor Mitch Daniels;
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 31, 2012
- Get The Word Out For Invisible Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 30, 2012
- August 27, 2012 CASA “Speaking From the Heart” Recognition Dinner Press Release:
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 27, 2012
- Today's Grand Magazine Radio Interview Cancelled - it will be rescheduled
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 22, 2012
- Art Rolnick Ted Talk Video; Federal Reserve Bank Study (Highest Return On The Tax Dollar - At Risk Children)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 20, 2012
- School Starts Soon Be Glad It Does; Uneducated Citizens Value Football, Beer, & Reality Shows Above Safe Streets, Healthy Children, or a Functioning Democracy
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 19, 2012
- Upcoming KARA events; 1) Live Radio Interview 8.22, 2pm Central Time
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 17, 2012
- National Grandparents Day September 9th & A Great Day To Recognize All Grandparent Caregivers
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 16, 2012
- Destroying Child Protection Records In Iowa, A Better Iowa For Children?
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 14, 2012
- Mass Psychosis in the U.S – Important Insights Into Big Pharma, Psychotropics, & Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 2, 2012
- Little Is Known About Deaths & Serious Injuries To Children In America
KARA reportingMike TikkanenAugust 1, 2012
- A Note From The Children's Defense Fund
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 27, 2012
- CASA MN Annual Fundraising Dinner (Items For Auction Needed) You Are Invited
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 27, 2012
- The Cost Of Ignoring Reality
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 21, 2012
- Michael Swanson, Jeff Weise, James Holmes, Virginia Tech; Tons of Avoidable Pain
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 20, 2012
- Free Printed Book With Each Audiobook Order (thru 8.15.12)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 19, 2012
- Twin Citites Marathon - Late Registration Supporting Guardian ad-Litem CASAMN
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 18, 2012
- The Holocaust of Innocence Tour and Documentary
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 17, 2012
- Bringing Heart & Meaning To Child Protection; CASA Florida Nixes The Ten Foot Pole Rule
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 14, 2012
- A Note On Paxil, Wellbutrin, Avandia & GlaxoSmithKline's Paying Kickbacks to Doctors & Treating Children With Unapproved Psychotropic Medications
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 2, 2012
- Texas Children Being Thrown Into the River by the Tens of Thousands
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 28, 2012
- Court Rules American Children Will No Longer Be Incarcerated For Life (& we recently quit executing juveniles)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 27, 2012
- What’s Wrong With New Jersey’s Half Way Houses Is What’s Wrong With America; The Illusion That Privatizing Social Services Saves Money Or Provides Social Services.
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 23, 2012
- Being A Child Protection Worker In AZ
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 19, 2012
- Making Big Money With Abused & Neglected Children; Mississippi Has The Plan
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 15, 2012
- Child Well Being Minnesota
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 10, 2012
- Goodbye Ron Mahla
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJune 4, 2012
- Louisiana Children Don’t Stand A Chance.
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 27, 2012
- Not Enough
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 5, 2012
- ACE Study Highlights
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 4, 2012
- This Doesn't Change What's Wrong In Kentucky (and elsewhere) For Abused & Neglected Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMay 1, 2012
- Children Murdered In Kentucky, Governor Beshear Hides The Evidence
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 30, 2012
- 2 Videos That You Can Use To Support Abused & Neglected Children
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 28, 2012
- Guardian Ad-Litem News From Around The Nation
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 28, 2012
- A MN guardian ad-Litem speaks to Montana about child abuse.
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 27, 2012
- Good-By CASA?
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 21, 2012
- New ACE Study DVD 3 Minute Preview:
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 21, 2012
- From Child Welfare In The News
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 19, 2012
- Child Trauma Academy Newsletter
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 19, 2012
- Institutional Bullying & Suicide; Bishop Gene Robinson
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 16, 2012
- It Can't Happen Here
KARA reportingMike TikkanenApril 13, 2012
- Guardian ad-Litem Training
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 31, 2012
- The Commonality Of Child Sex Abuse
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 26, 2012
- The State Of American Schools (& Stop Blaming Teachers)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 24, 2012
- The Laws We Live By
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 21, 2012
- Stop The Rape & Abuse of America’s Children - Get Involved In Invisible Children's Mission
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 17, 2012
- Child Abuse & The Most Powerful Suicide Note Ever
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 8, 2012
- Bad Teacher, It's All Your Fault
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 8, 2012
- Thank You Judge Kevin Burke
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 5, 2012
- Shout Out To Mitch Daniels & the YMCA Volunteers With Special Needs Kids I saw this morning.
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 3, 2012
- National Center For Youth Law
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 2, 2012
- Sports, & Entertainment Vs Children, Education, & Public Safety
KARA reportingMike TikkanenMarch 1, 2012
- Save Enormous Downstream Costs (Listen Carefully To David Strand's Advice)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 29, 2012
- Lying To Ourselves About Caring, Children, & Religion
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 28, 2012
- Thank You Colorado Springs Gazette For Your Excellent Child Protection Reporting
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 22, 2012
- It Can't Happen Here (it Does happen here)
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 21, 2012
- Adoptees Have Answers - Best Org Ever
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 19, 2012
- Giving Voice To Abused & Neglected Children At Private Schools
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 16, 2012
- Race To The Bottom, Untrained Social Workers, Over Work & More Dead & Suffering Children In Indiana
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 8, 2012
- America; The Worst Child Abuse Record In The Industrialized World
KARA reportingMike TikkanenFebruary 4, 2012