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Pushing back on a child welfare poll full of loaded questions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Adoption and Safe Families Act have destroyed the lives of millions of children and families. And they commissioned a poll from Gallup , which appears to have been geared toward encouraging more Black families to foster and adopt. But there is. I don’t know.

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The failure of the child welfare McLawsuits, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

To read the account on CR’s website you’d think their suit turned a dreadful, failing “child welfare” system into a shining success story. But just four years later, the Tennessee Department of Child Services, their family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) has opened a bunch of new ones.

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Massachusetts pilots the most promising reform in child welfare. Guess who’s trying to undercut it.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Cara, who asked to keep her last name private, said she had already been in touch with a domestic violence organization about her ex. Child Advocate" Maria Mossaides Who in the world could be against something like that? Unfortunately, much of child welfare operates with a pre- Gault mentality.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 13, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

When the agency sought to persuade the foster parents to adopt, here’s what the foster father says he was told: “Family will come out of the woodwork when we do this. Meanwhile, the child has been moved to his fifth foster placement. But here the family police give away what really happens. But] We’ll handle them for you.”

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Jan 11, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It was followed by a systematic campaign of forced adoption into white homes, spearheaded by, among others, the Child Welfare League of America. But that is exactly what the child welfare “ombudsman” is doing in Maine. The Philadelphia Inquirer tells the stories of some of the survivors.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending March 14, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Canada has a similarly ugly history when it comes to child welfare and Canada’s First Nations. In San Diego, Arabella McCormack and her sisters were taken from their mother not because she abused them, but because they witnessed domestic violence. They were placed with foster parents who adopted them.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending November 8, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Haaland, the case challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act is scheduled to begin TODAY (Nov. Of course, most non-native foster parents who adopt native children are not accused of abusing them. Another post discusses two stories about “shortages” in Massachusetts “child welfare.” 9) at 10:00 am ET. In other news: