NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

Last week, the Detroit News did “the fatality series” – and got it right. I have a blog post about it all, with a link to the full series. --In It would be a good idea if more news reporters on the “child welfare” beat, who really do have an obligation to report the perspectives they disagree with, fulfilled that obligation.)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 23, 2022

LA Weekly noted how the Times quietly backed off claims in a Therolf story about child abuse deaths. ? As we noted in this earlier post about one such story, in Garrett Therolf’s world white people “marshal data.” In this, they march alongside DCFS-Give Us Back Our Children, which has been active for well over a decade.

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The Vintage Social Worker

DECEMBER 23, 2018

The dark dank days of November and December are only brightened for most of us by the prospect of Christmas. These were the poor children of the county who had landed in the reformatory usually as a result of criminal acts brought about by extreme poverty, hunger and homelessness. I too would drink untill I could sleep.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

● In what is presented as a news story, the Globe finally acknowledges there’s a controversy over whether mandatory child abuse reporting is a good idea – and then comes down squarely for keeping it. ● News writer Murray Slaughter says no one should be too hard on Ted. I was thinking about that more than the delivery.”

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