Rita Swan, Ph.D. is president of Children’s
Healthcare is a Legal Duty (CHILD, Inc.), which works to prevent
religion-related abuse and neglect of children, especially medical neglect. She
has published articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, Advances in
Pediatrics, Pediatrics, and several other journals. She has lectured at 14
national conferences and 12 regional ones, testified 12 times before state and
federal legislatures, and conducted training sessions for child abuse
investigators.
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. CHILD is a
member of the National Child Abuse Coalition.
