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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2023
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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 23, 2023
This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in foster care with no compromise of safety. It’s one reason New York City’s rate of removal is well under one-third the rate of Massachusetts, even when rates of child poverty are factored in.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 11, 2022
It was followed by a systematic campaign of forced adoption into white homes, spearheaded by, among others, the Child Welfare League of America. Foster-care panic is like a fire. But that is exactly what the child welfare “ombudsman” is doing in Maine. It’s not a good idea to add gasoline.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Remember, family police agencies are supposed to conduct intensive searches to find relatives to care for these children. 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. But] We’ll handle them for you.”
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 14, 2023
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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