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Kayden’s Law Provision of VAWA Fuels Family Court Reform

Stop Abuse Campaign

These child custody laws and standards include: Limiting expert testimony to those with demonstrated expertise and clinical experience working with victims of domestic violence and child abuse. Ensuring past instances of domestic violence or child abuse are considered in custody decisions.

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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. Research shows the trauma of removal in such situations is worse than any trauma that may be caused by witnessing domestic violence.

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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. And, according to its own brochure , the Plummer program encourages something called “concurrent planning” which further stacks the deck against families and in favor of foster parents who want to adopt.*

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 22, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

As The Arizona Republic explains: The discovery has broad implications for children, parents and potential adoptive parents. The family police are the ones who took Melanie’s six-year-old daughter away and placed her with the foster/adoptive parents now accused of torturing and murdering her. So, whose judgment should we trust here? ●

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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. The attempt to use family policing to destroy Native American culture didn’t end with the horrible institutions known as “boarding schools.”

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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. None of it was true.

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

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Of course, most non-native foster parents who adopt native children are not accused of abusing them. Video is now available of the Family Integrity and Justice Works event documenting the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act: ? But Karin Brulliard of The Washington Post proved me wrong. ? In other news: ?