The Philadelphia Inquirer: on Families & Children


Sean Parnell: Denies wife's claim of physical and verbal abuse

The estranged wife of Parnell testified that he choked her until she bit him to escape, that he hit their young children, and that he lashed out at her with obscenities and insults. In tearful testimony, Laurie Snell told a family court judge that her husband once called her a "whore" and a "piece of s--" while pinning her down. In a statement released by his campaign, Parnell, vigorously disputed his wife's claims, calling a number of them "lies."
Source: The Philadelphia Inquireron 2022 Pennsylvania Senate race Nov 1, 2021

Mary Gay Scanlon: Helping women around the world key to helping their kids

I'm not an isolationist. I am concerned about cuts to foreign aid and the State Department because I think the best foreign policy that we have, is to know what's going on in the world, work with people in the world. I'm particularly distressed by the elimination of the efforts to work with women around the world, whether it's on education or on birth control or other things that are going to improve women's conditions because that then universally improves the conditions for their children.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer on 2018 Congress PA-5 election Nov 1, 2018

Bob Casey: Mandatory reporting of the pure evil of child abuse

Bob Casey first called for stronger federal standards for the mandatory reporting of child abuse in 2011, as a scandal raged at Pennsylvania State University about a former assistant football coach who had sexually assaulted children. That coach, Jerry Sandusky, is serving a prison sentence of 30 to 60 years as another child sexual-abuse scandal has alarmed and angered Pennsylvania.

And Casey is still calling for responsibility, a week after a grand jury report linking 301 priests to allegations of sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children dating back to the 1940s. "The grand jury report was a chronicle of pure evil. Pure evil. There's no other way to say that," Casey said while standing with a group of child-protection advocates. "It was a catalog of crimes committed by adults who preyed on the powerless, children and young people who would have trusted a member of the clergy."

Casey also denounced the "decades of cover-up by powerful people who could have stopped the abuse."

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer on 2018 Pennsylvania Senate race Aug 24, 2018

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