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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in "child welfare." Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2022
What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. This one takes on what may be the most dangerous phrase in the family policing lexicon: “best interests of the child.” One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 8, 2023
That’s just one of the findings in the new study we highlighted in yesterday's post to this Blog (a study I first read about on the excellent blog written by Robert Latham, Associate Director of the University of Miami Children and Youth Law Clinic). Often, it’s all accompanied by a stripsearch looking for bruises. Yes, second highest.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." Except in child welfare. Termination of parental rights (or, as it should be called, termination of children’s rights to their parents) often is described as child welfare’s death penalty. In fact, we don’t know how often adoption does that.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2021
This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. They can effectively decide if the child stays in foster care.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Instead of making the dreadful Texas "child welfare" system better, "Children's Rights" and "A Better Childhood" set off what amounts to a giant game of whack-a-mole. The one thing the McLawsuits do well is offer thorough, vivid descriptions of how awful “child welfare” systems typically are. Not that this was a surprise.
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