School is starting and many of you parents out there have to decide whether or not your kids are ready to be home alone. Thousands of children across Wisconsin come home after school to an empty house. Nationally, nearly seven million children between ages 5 and 14 are left home alone for some period of time each school day, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Wisconsin law does not specify an age a child may be left without adult supervision. However, it is the parents’ responsibility to protect and keep their children safe. (more…)

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Child abuse is the absolutely worst kind of abuse that can occur in this world, that is my opinion. Children can’t fight back, children can’t run for help, children can’t save themselves in the most desperate times.

I am the second oldest of 16 children. All of us in my family were, I mean ARE, victims of child abuse. Every one of us was in a foster home, every one of us has endured the pain and horror of facing a parent who chooses violence.

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Next Monday, Aug. 24, Discovery Health Channel will air a “Mystery Diagnosis” episode about one of our patients. Claire Mantey was diagnosed here at Children’s with a rare condition called lymphangiomatosis. The film crew spent several days at our hospital last winter, interviewing our physicians and recreating how Claire was diagnosed. The program airs at 9 p.m. We hope you’ll tune in.

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