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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending May 3, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Roberts discusses her book, and racism in child welfare with Marc Lamont Hill And here with Ali Velshi on MSNBC: ? It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some “child welfare” agency announcing an initiative that supposedly will make family policing kinder and gentler. Velshi refers to Prof. You can read that story here. ?

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, weeks ending Nov. 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. But there are few consequences for wrongly removing children from their homes.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 15, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

So the only real answer is to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting – as Texas has done , though too late to prevent a tragedy. --All Her adoptive parents, Isaac and Lehua Kalua, have been charged with murder.

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NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2023, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.