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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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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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