Brief Analyses and Commentaries
The NCCPR Quick Read Almost everything on this site boiled down to just over two pages.
The Evidence is in: Foster Care vs. Keeping Families Together: The Definitive Studies. NCCPR’s analysis of studies comparing outcomes for more than 15,000 children, with links to the full studies. Children left in their own homes typically fared far better than comparably maltreated children placed in foster care.
80 Percent Failure: A Brief Analysis of the Casey Family Programs Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study
BIG DATA IS WATCHING YOU. Our report on a dangerous new fad in child welfare: “Predictive Analytics.”
THE CASE AGAINST CASA: How the Most Sacred Cow in Child Welfare Hurts the Children it is Meant to Help
CHILD WELFARE’S PANDEMIC OF FEAR: How the false, racially-biased “master narrative” about COVID-19 and child abuse hurts children.
“Child Welfare” heads to the reputation laundry: The child welfare establishment co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda
Epidemic of Hype: How hysteria over methamphetamine heroin has become the latest excuse to “take the child and run.”
A Foster Parent Speaks Out. A foster parent shares her observations about the child welfare system in her state.
- ASFA, “Aging out” and the Growth in Legal Orphans. How the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act increased the number of young people who leave foster care with no ties to their birth parents and no adoptive home either.
- And from the archives: An Analysis of ASFA: From the New England Law Review, NCCPR Executive Director Richard Wexler’s analysis of the law
A Child Welfare Timeline: Setting the Record Straight on Recent Child Welfare History
Solutions
When Children Witness Domestic Violence: Expert Opinion
“Children’s Rights” Should Include the Fourth Amendment: Our special website about Camreta v. Greene, the first major child protective services case to reach the U.S. Supreme Court in 21 years.
MINORITY REPORT. Our analysis of the dreadful recommendations from a federal advisory commission on child abuse fatalities. Full analysis, press release, Updates on the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
The Children Wronged By “Children’s Rights” How the 800 pound gorilla of child welfare litigation sometimes harmed the children it wanted to help – and how that is now changing.
You Get What You Pay For. NCCPR’s analysis of family policing financial incentives, originally published in the Family Justice Journal.