NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. As is so often the case with these algorithms, they are less prediction than self-fulfilling prophecy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

That’s because it’s meant specifically for those who have read a study concocted by a who’s who of family policing’s “caucus of denial” – those who claim that, somehow, child welfare is magically immune from the racism that infects every other aspect of American life. Therefore “child welfare” isn’t racist.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Or will they uphold their commitments to child safety through family preservation? -- Based on her extensive research Prof. Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws.

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