Articles Tagged With: abandon
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Out of Options: When Parents Abandon Pediatric Psychiatric Patients at Hospital
Parents often are faced with an impossible choice. They must decide whether to bring home a child who poses a threat to self and others, or risk a child abandonment charge. The criteria for acute psychiatric hospitalization are so high that children might be discharged only to be rehospitalized within weeks or days — and retraumatized in the process.
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Biden Administration Abandons ‘Public Charge’ Rule
Under Trump era proposal, immigrants who received public benefits, including Medicaid, above a certain level would be considered a “public charge.”