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Confusing poverty with neglect, from coast to coast
Congress never defined “reasonable efforts.” But common sense suggests that: “We don’t have anything except foster care so we’re throwing your kids into foster care” does not qualify.
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Maine fails to keep a family apart forever just because of poverty – but not for lack of trying
Compare the trauma Maine family police inflicted on this family to the restraint shown by their counterparts in Ohio in a case with some remarkable similarities – and one huge difference.
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New Mexico gets its foster-care panic
A foster-care panic increases the temptation to lower standards for foster parents and look the other way when there is abuse in group homes, shelters and institutions.
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Three million children endure the trauma of a child abuse investigation every year, almost always because of a false report. Now we know more about how the children of Pete Buttigieg became two of them.
Michigan law prohibits the exercise of common sense.
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Child welfare in New Mexico: Which metrics matter when it’s YOUR child?
Suppose, hypothetically, you’re a New Mexico journalist, or lawmaker, or other prominent public figure and someone decided to file a false, malicious child abuse report accusing you of the most vile crimes against children. So now, it’s happening to you, and the caseworker is at your door.
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Foster care in California: Your Tax Dollars at Work
Private foster care agencies in California and elsewhere have been trying to get near-total immunity from lawsuits by survivors of abuse in homes or institutions they oversee – or at least a taxpayer bailout for their insurance costs. Here’s an example of who could be shut out.
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Trouble at an Arizona residential treatment center? It must be the kids’ fault! Send in the drone!
At no point, it seems, has anyone in power asked the obvious question: Why are so many children so desperate to leave these places?
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Holy Toledo! Is a county learning the RIGHT lessons from a child abuse tragedy?
The task force opted for doing the hard work and finding real solutions that can make all of the county’s children safer. They’ve created a blueprint for child safety.
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How much is an institutionalized child’s life worth? According to the State of Minnesota: $200
Break the cycle, confront Minnesota’s ugly history of needless family separation, and the system can be rebuilt to the point where the state won’t hesitate to shut down institutions and we can treat such closings for what they really are: cause for celebration.
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Pete Buttigieg faces the family police
In media, the incident is being treated largely as some kind of bizarre outlier and a sign of the increasing ugliness and polarization of our politics. That’s largely how Buttigieg himself framed it. But perhaps the most important lesson in all of this is that it is not an outlier. Not by a longshot.
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