Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD, Inc.) is a non-profit national membership organization established in 1983 to protect children from abusive religious and cultural practices, especially religion-based medical neglect. CHILD opposes religious exemptions from duties of care for children.

• Laws requiring medical care of children, including preventive and diagnostic measures, without exception for religious belief
• Reporting of child abuse and neglect without religious exemption
• Licensing of child care facilities including those run by churches
• Ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child

• Publishing a newsletter
• Filing lawsuits and amicus briefs
• Supporting laws that protect children against medical neglect
• Providing emotional support for victims of religion-based medical neglect
• Providing speakers
• Collecting and disseminating information about court cases and state and federal laws

CHILD will send a complimentary copy of our newsletter and flyer upon request.

We welcome your comments. We also appreciate your sharing with us information about cases of child neglect or abuse related to rigid belief systems.

Contact CHILD at Box 2604, Sioux City IA 51106, Ph. 712-948-3500, FAX 712-948-3704, or e-mail: childinc@netins.net