article thumbnail

Our annual reminder: End "child welfare"’s public celebration of family executions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.

article thumbnail

The New York Times rediscovers wrongful removal, class bias and racial bias in child welfare – and gets a lot right. But the story is marred by some glaring errors.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

But it still fell into some of the traps that characterize much of the journalism of child welfare – including a crucial misunderstanding of poverty and neglect and one inflammatory claim that, as originally published, was flat wrong. ? s Child Welfare System Racist? There was the headline: “Is N.Y.’s

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Our annual call to end child welfare’s public celebration of family executions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.

article thumbnail

End child welfare’s public celebration of family executions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. Even then, reporters condemned it as a “carnival.” (I

article thumbnail

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending March 1, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? But things have taken a strange turn in Maine.

article thumbnail

Review: 101 Careers in Social Work - Third Edition (2019)

Michigan Girl's Café

Social workers can be found as filmmakers, consultants, mediators, journalists, attorneys, and much more! I enjoyed the section on nontraditional careers in social work because the social work degree is versatile in a variety of professional settings.

article thumbnail

If there’s another foster-care panic in NYC, it’s on The New York Times

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Their deaths were among a string of fatalities involving children who were the subject of warnings to child welfare authorities or the police in New York City. That’s implied when the Times regurgitates the Big Lie of American child welfare: the claim that keeping children safe and families together are at odds.