NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
The poll that wasn’t rigged Back in the 19 th Century, the white racists who stole Native American children and forced them into hideous boarding schools, and tore apart impoverished immigrant families and forced the children onto so-called “orphan trains” grandly called themselves “child savers.” I don’t know.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2022
It crops up over and over when there’s any story about what family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) do to families. There aren’t enough beds for little guys that need this level of care, and the child welfare system has to kind of figure out ‘how can we do the best with what we have?’”
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
I single these stories out not because they are exceptionally awful - there’s far worse out there - but precisely because they are so typical of the journalism of child welfare. So for some of the latter, some forms of counseling and/or parent education are helpful. In fact, a small number of parents are evil. A small number are sick.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Anna Arons of New York University School of Law, in which she summarized her landmark study “An Unintended Abolition.” What COVID changed – and the dogwhistling that followed First was just the shutdown of in-person schooling, which reduced the contact between children and this army of mandated reporters. We give families money.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 26, 2024
The National Association of Counsel for Children agrees. Nobody in the Massachusetts child-welfare system wanted to take another potentially deadly risk involving the interstate compact. It’s been nurtured at every turn by the state’s foremost advocate for a take-the-child-and-run approach to “child welfare,” Maria Mossaides.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
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? The second thing to note is that the story got a lot of things right.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The Complaint filed by the Family Justice Law Center , the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic and two private law firms – especially the introductory section – reads like great journalism. had written, “I am a bad kid” and “I need to behave at school or Mommy and Daddy will be arrested.” In the story, Ms.
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