How the journalism of child welfare fails
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. The stories blithely attribute West Virginia’s high rate of removal to the fact that “More than half entered the system because of a parent’s substance abuse.” That’s not correct.
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