Describe a federally neglected public issue that state and local governments addressed and remedies without federal regulation or funding

State laws addressing the abuse and neglect of children were passed in all 50 states following the 1962 amendments to the Social Security Act that required all states to include child protection in their child welfare systems (Myers, 2008). At the same time, the 1962 article “The Battered Child Syndrome” (Kempe et al., 1962, 1985) gave rise to public concern that many voluntary societies for the prevention of cruelty to children were disappearing, having been largely replaced by government counterparts known today as child protective services agencies.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.