Wade Horn

Wade Horn
Wade F. Horn is an American psychologist who received unanimous confirmationin 2001 as the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families. Before his resignation on April 1, 2007, he oversaw the function of the Administration For Children and Families, an agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services. He served under President George H. W. Bush as Commissioner of Children, Youth, and Families within the Administration For Children and Families...
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I am greatly concerned that known sex offenders who may have relocated to your state may take advantage of their anonymity and harm children once again.
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The more frequently a child is visited in foster care, the better the outcome for that child.
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The goal of the (reviews) has not been to penalize states, but to work with them to improve the effectiveness of their child welfare systems.
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The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list of these programs… the need for each is either created or exacerbated by the breakup of families and marriages.
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Children ought not to be victims of the choices adults make for them,
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When I talked to evacuees, one of the things that struck me was that so many of them were saying, 'As terrible as this was, this may have given me the opportunity to reassess my own life and to think differently about what opportunities are available to me,' ... That, to me, is the great untold story.
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The problem is the traffickers are very good at controlling their victims, ... They don't have access to TV, their ability to learn English is restricted, so getting the message directly to the victims is difficult.
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What you don't want is to reinforce the sense that there is no vision for the future, that the best we can do is help you with the day-to-day stuff, ... That's a recipe for long-term dependency on government. It's a recipe for depression.
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What this reinforces is the idea that, when it comes to welfare reform, nothing quite works like work.
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We assumed that victims would in large numbers escape the situation that they were in and come forward. They didn't do that.
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When sex offenders know they're being watched, when they know they're being monitored, they are less likely to offend again. When they no longer believe they are being monitored or watched, they can be tempted to offend again.
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A cop arrests some street prostitutes, puts them in jail and tries to get someone to deport them ? that's exactly what traffickers say to their victims, ... The cops think they're just doing what they're supposed to do. ... We're training them to know what to look for, what to ask.
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Where the disruption will be is where they're living in an area where none of the retailers are operating,
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We're not surprised at what the inspector general found.