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Without ever intending it, New Mexico’s governor has made it more likely that vulnerable children will die – and used an Orwellian justification
The evidence is overwhelming that, for all sorts of reasons, some of those children the governor and her allies claim to have saved will die prematurely. Others will suffer other grievous harm. It will happen because they were taken needlessly.
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What happens when the family police and their enablers in politics and journalism treat impoverished children and their families as sub-human? A story in The New Yorker has some answers.
Perhaps the most important contribution the New Yorker story makes, and what makes it so relevant everywhere, is the way it brings home the inherent trauma of removal, trauma that lasts long after the children are back home.
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There will be no sugar-frosted foster care in New York
A scheme to create what amounts to a second, hidden foster care system in New York, without even the bare minimum due process protections in the formal system, has been shut down by the state’s highest court.
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Calculating the price of foster-care panic – in children’s lives and health
In the wake of two high-profile child abuse deaths, the Vice President of the County Board of Supervisors, Sylvia Arenas, and the San Jose Mercury News, in particular, reporter Julia Prodis Sulek, rushed to falsely scapegoat efforts to keep families together. Now, we can calculate the price.
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How to NOT fix abuse in group homes and institutions in 8 easy steps. Lessons from Massachusetts and elsewhere
Of course, there is one way to break this cycle …
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Foster-care panic in Silicon Valley: Tragically, in Santa Clara County, California, children DID die of child abuse before 2023
Of course, no one literally said that there were no child abuse deaths before 2023. Instead, those pushing the take-the-child-and-run response to recent fatalities engaged in what should be called “inference peddling.”
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Did a media-fueled foster-care panic contribute to a child’s death in Silicon Valley?
Bad journalism and political demagoguery have combined to set off what is probably the worst foster-care panic anywhere in America. As a result, all children in Santa Clara County, California, are less safe.
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Number of foster children in Maine declines – from obscene down to merely outrageous
Also: ● Part of the decline isn’t even real – the news story reporting the decline left 143 children out. ● When it comes to the least harmful form of foster care, kinship foster care, Maine’s record is getting worse. One of the many reasons Maine has one of the saddest recent child welfare histories…
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Congratulations Phoenix: When it comes to tearing apart families in big cities, you’re still #1!
Children are at greater risk of being torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care in Phoenix than in any other of America’s largest cities. It’s a long, ugly tradition.
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Donald Trump and the child savers redux. It’s not a band, but they still sing the same song
More than a decade ago, I wrote a column for The Imprint called “Donald Trump and the Child Savers. It’s Not a Band But They Sing the Same Song.” I was reminded again of how the Trump approach and that of the take-the-child-and-run crowd in child welfare are nearly identical when I read about Trump’s…
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