Category: Uncategorized
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In Maine, a man overseeing a mother’s drug test allegedly forces her to strip and stares at her. Then, it allegedly got worse. The family police agency, on the other hand, is only too glad to look the other way.
Of course, this isn’t the norm. It’s a horror story. But the local district attorney got to the heart of why we might not know how often this happens in Maine or anywhere else.
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The real “oomph” deficit in Santa Clara County
So far, no one will stand up to the bullies driving the nation’s worst foster-care panic and endangering children’s lives.
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The San Jose Mercury News is deep in denial about the foster-care panic it did so much to start
When you factor in poverty, Santa Clara recently has become very much an outlier.
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Bodycam video reveals the appalling behavior of Florida family police
After more than two years in foster care, Kenlee finally was returned to her mother. I believe that, had there been no video, that wouldn’t have happened.
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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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