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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. It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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NASW Press Reads for Policy, Advocacy, and Impact!

Social Work Blog

Written from a modern, pluralist perspective, the text shows why economists and policymakers disagree about regulations, social welfare programs, government spending, and tax policies designed to address these economic problems.

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Ideological Bias in Social Sciences and Implications for Clinical Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

Over the decades, the American Psychological Association (APA) and other professional psychology organizations have provided considerable leadership towards the advocacy of equality. We contend that such ideological bias, stemming from a sore lack of ideological diversity, bears implications for clinical practice.

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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. It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 20, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

What happened to Detlaff is just one example of “child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work. The phrase is an invitation to inflict the whims and prejudices of a white middle-class “child welfare” establishment on families that are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite. That’s why he’s no longer the dean. (He

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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. I probably don’t even need to mention that the man they hanged was Black.)

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The horrifying ubiquity of the family police

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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). How, then, does she account for how the Maine family police treat Hispanic families?