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In my small hometown this Christmas, my friends Joe and Randy Thomas will open presents with their new son, Johnny. Now, having a new child for Christmas is usually a [...]

Sometimes it takes someone from the outside making a little noise to draw our attention to necessary changes. And that's just what a national child advocacy organization did when it [...]

By now, you have probably heard about the horrors of the child sex slave trade throughout Eastern Europe, Asia and Third World countries. Sadly, however, the victimization of young girls [...]

'At this festive time of the year, Mr. Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for [...]

Child abuse and neglect cases are in the headlines these days, as are stories of new laws and policies intended to bolster the child welfare system. Just this past month, [...]

The Broken Shackle Ranch is a nonprofit group home for delinquent boys in my east Georgia county. Over the past 20 years, it has taken in hundreds of young men, [...]

WALTON BACCALAUREATE: Church inaccurately cast as being bigoted As a longtime member of Mount Bethel United Methodist Church, I was very upset with the way The Atlanta Constitution reported on [...]

I was saddened to read Charles Stith's column about his son's arrest by MARTA police for 'fare-jumping.' Mostly, I was dismayed by the fact that Stith, an ordained Methodist minister [...]