The 2021 Reauthorization of CAPTA — Letting Public Health Lead

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), the foundational child-protection legislation in the United States, has been revised more than 20 times since its original passage in 1974. For nearly 30 years, CAPTA didn’t cover infants who had been exposed to drugs or alcohol in utero, until…

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