Every child has the right to be brought up in a loving and nurturing home.
For many this will never be. Every day we read horror stories of children being brutally abused and sometimes even killed by their parents or by other caretakers. In the New York area, we have had several such cases in just the past two months. In one case a toddler was beaten by both parents and then her father pushed her head into a toilet bowl. In another case, a 13 months old died from shaken baby syndrome.