It’s National Safe Kids week all week and The Florida Child Injury Lawyer wants to recognize this week with even more tips on keeping your child safe.
Childproofing your home is one of the most important aspects of ensuring child safety because parents and children naturally spend quite a bit of time at home.
The trick to [...]
This week is National Safe Kids Week and in recognition of that, The Child Injury Lawyer will provide some safety tips developed by Safe Kids USA after conducting a study of accidental child injuries.
Not surprisingly, the injury risks children are exposed to change as the grow up, but this study is the first to analyze [...]
Florida’s 3rd District Court of Appeals recently handed down a ruling that weakens Florida’s strong protection for victims of childhood sexual abuse and protects those who enable the abusers.
In Rodriguez v. Favalora, the court ruled that Florida law does not allow victims who remember their childhood abuse later in life to file suit against those [...]
My recent post about an increase in child injuries as a result of overuse in sports reminded me of an interesting interview I heard with the author of a recent book.
Michael Sokolove wrote Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women’s Sports and has some very important things to say about sports [...]
Sexting has been hot in the news recently due to some over enthusiastic law enforcement officials arresting teenagers and charging them with violating laws that were designed to protect them.
The Vermont Legislature is the first among the states to do the right thing and update its child pornography laws to bring them in line with [...]
Children’s hospitals are treating more sports injuries in children caused by overuse. While most parents behave reasonably when it comes to pushing their children too far, a growing number find it difficult to let go of their dream for their children to play pro or college sports.
These parents, and the overzealous coaches and sports leagues [...]
The rich and powerful tourism industry here in Florida wants to get away with injuring children. Orlando businesses such as Walt Disney World and Sea World are among the many businesses paying lots of money to influence the Florida Legislature to pass a law that would allow them to get away with negligently injuring or [...]
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and the blue ribbon is its symbol. The tradition of wearing or displaying a blue ribbon began as the result of one individual. In 1989, a Virginia grandmother paid tribute to her grandson who died as a result of abuse by tying a blue ribbon to the antenna of [...]
