By age 14, Oprah Winfrey was out on her own. She no longer lived with her mother full time and instead roamed the streets of Milwaukee, on a bad path. Eventually, her mother …show more content…
Oprah Winfrey is extremely involved in a numerous amount of philanthropic activities and charities benefiting the greater good of humanity. In 1993, with the help of the president of the time Bill Clinton, Oprah was able to help pass the National Child Protection Act, which was soon dubbed the “Oprah Bill”. Fueled by the motivation of her own personal experiences of child abuse, Oprah initiated a campaign to establish a national database of convicted child abusers. She went to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and testified, displaying her viewpoints on the issue and on behalf of a National Child Protection Act. When President Clinton signed the act into law, it was able to establish the national database in which she had sought. Today, it is available to law enforcement agencies in all 50