NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 23, 2023
Cara, who asked to keep her last name private, said she had already been in touch with a domestic violence organization about her ex. If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides. Enter the Fearmonger-in-Chief Mass.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Last week, we highlighted a story from The Boston Globe about how the Massachusetts family police agency persecutes survivors of domestic violence. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on what happened next. They do it even though the damage to children from needless removal is compounded when they are taken in these circumstances.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Dorothy Roberts’ definitive dissection of racism in family policing: Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Some might say the novel depicts a dystopian future child welfare surveillance state. We start with three important books: ● First, Prof.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Back in Massachusetts, consider another group family police love to persecute – survivors of domestic violence. In the wake of a scathing report from a county auditor, The Morning Call reports , she was just relieved of her job running the “child advocacy center" at the local hospital.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2021
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2023
The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy.
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JANUARY 23, 2024
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