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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
On this Saturday - “National Adoption Day” - who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals? Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty."
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Tomorrow, on “National Adoption Day, who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals? Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty."
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
On this Saturday - “National Adoption Day” - who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption ceremony, every treacly feature story on the local news is an act of cruelty – ripping the scab off a wound that never fully heals. Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty."
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2022
What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. This one takes on what may be the most dangerous phrase in the family policing lexicon: “best interests of the child.” That’s why he’s no longer the dean. (He He continues as a professor.) I have a blog post about it.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Instead of making the dreadful Texas "child welfare" system better, "Children's Rights" and "A Better Childhood" set off what amounts to a giant game of whack-a-mole. The one thing the McLawsuits do well is offer thorough, vivid descriptions of how awful “child welfare” systems typically are. Not that this was a surprise.
Social Workers Speak
DECEMBER 8, 2022
“We have always had difficulty in maintaining staffing and child protection agencies, but the pandemic has made it worse.”. Melina Brann is director of policy and advocacy for NASW-MI: Shirkey’s long sought-after mental health legislation defeated in bipartisan vote. Michigan Live. 8 News Now Las Vegas. View on Youtube.].
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2021
This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. That’s not because they want to hurt children, of course. He is not a CASA-basher.
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