- Child maltreatment deaths raise questions about Michigan’s funding priorities
- Home visiting: more hype than hope
- Child welfare and community norms: a troubling divergence
- The continued decline in foster care placements: What, if anything, are children and families getting instead?
- The Trump Administration is separating families again
- Teaching abuse: how some adoptive parents are being taught to maltreat their children
- A Reality Check on Family First: It Has Nothing to Do with the 50% Decline in Indiana’s Foster Care Caseloads
- Child Welfare Monitor DC: 65 percent of investigations closed as “incomplete” in the second quarter of FY 2025
- The rejection of child protection
- A life discounted: The tragic story of Begidu Morris
- The power of wishful thinking: The continued promotion of Healthy Families America as a child abuse prevention program
- Did maltreatment fatalities in Texas really decline?
- Maryland needs full transparency on child fatality cases
- A fundamental conflict: addressing implicit bias in mandatory reporter training
- No progress on child protection reforms in Utah halfway through the legislative session
- Child Maltreatment 2023: A reduction in child maltreatment victims or a retrenchment of child protection?
- A Fatal Collision: The Opioid Epidemic and the Dismantling of Child Protection Services in Washington State
- Child Protective Services in the District of Columbia: An alarming increase in incomplete investigations in FY2024
- The Death of Thomas Valva: Almost five years later, we still don’t know the truth
- Seven children and all she needed was a van: large families and the blindness of the child welfare establishment
- Keeping the public in the dark about child fatalities and near fatalities: findings of a new report
- The tragic life and death of Gavin Peterson: Utah’s statement leaves many questions unanswered
- GUEST POST: Torn Apart: How the Abolition Movement Destroys Foster Youth – And How Listening To Us Can Build A Safer World
- How New York keeps the public in the dark about high-profile child abuse and neglect deaths
- School shootings and fentanyl overdoses: the uncounted costs of neglecting maltreated children
- Reposting: Torn apart: A skewed portrait of child welfare in America
- The fundamental misconception at the heart of the Family First Act
- A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee
- As foster care removals plummet, where’s the promised help for families?
- New Jersey’s claim of declining child maltreatment: ingenuous or disingenuous?
- A jumble of standards: How state and federal authorities have underestimated child maltreatment fatalities
- Lives cut short: a new project to document child maltreatment fatalities
- Controlling the narrative: How the state of Washington is trying to censor the foster parent voice in court
- Flying blind: the strange story of a strategy, an ideology, and an evaluation
- Child Welfare Update: February 2024
- Child Maltreatment 2022: reports increase but response lags
- Reform, not abolish, child welfare: A science-informed path
- We are not here to save children: abuse and neglect deaths after contact with child welfare services in the District of Columbia, 2019-2021
- The child placement crisis: It’s time to lose the slogans and find real solutions
- Diverse opinions not accepted: Censorship by a contractor of the U.S. Children’s Bureau
- The misuse of “lived experience” in child welfare
- Shiny, happy and homeschooled: the Duggar family and the need to regulate homeschooling
- Residential care in child welfare: An international perspective
- Family First at five: Not much to celebrate
- What is the cause of racial disparity in child welfare?
- No room for child advocates: Why I was kicked off DC’s Child Fatality Review Committee
- Using algorithms in child welfare: promise, confusion and controversy
- The Minnesota Child Maltreatment Fatalities Report: Essential reading for child advocates everywhere
- The new Child Maltreatment 2021 Report: Did child maltreatment really decrease?
- Neglect as poverty: the myth that won’t go away
- Book Review: A Place Called Home: a needed antidote to the dominant narrative
- Chronic maltreatment: A blind spot for child welfare
- The placement crisis for high-needs kids: it is residential facilities, not foster homes, that are lacking
- A tragic ignorance: support for corporal punishment in certain communities
- Using child welfare data to learn from the past: why is it so unpopular?
- Where is the outrage at the death of Chase Allen in Detroit?
- Another abuse death in Michigan: Why doesn’t child protective services want to learn from the past?
- In New Jersey, children’s needs disregarded as blood ties take precedence over attachment and timely permanency
- The tragedy of Harmony Montgomery: Why we must strengthen the federal permanency timeline, not repeal it
- Did child maltreatment fall under COVID-19?
- “Five Myths about the Child Welfare System” misleads more than it corrects
- Torn apart: A skewed portrait of child welfare in America
- Child Abuse Prevention Month becomes “Family Strengthening Month” in two states: will more follow?
- The power of wishful thinking revisited: the improbable growth of Healthy Families America
- When parents’ rights trump children’s needs
- Child Maltreatment 2020: what did and didn’t happen in the first pandemic year
- New data show drop in foster care numbers during pandemic
- Child maltreatment, home schooling, and an organization in need of support
- Ten common child welfare misconceptions: essential reading for child welfare commentators and policymakers
- No Way to Treat a Child: a needed corrective to the dominant narrative
- What can happen when “Family First” goes too far: a Wisconsin story
- The misuse of data to support preferred programs: the case of family resource centers
- When ideology can kill: the death of Noah Cuatro
- Report of Maltreatment: a major risk factor for child mortality
- Lethal reunifications: two children dead in New York and Florida
- Congress must take steps to ensure availability of therapeutic residential care
- The power of wishful thinking: the case of “race-blind removals” in child welfare
- Homeschooling: Harvard conference highlights need for regulation
- Child Neglect: a misused and misunderstood term
- Taking racialized thinking to its illogical conclusion: a state senator responds to David Almond’s death
- The death of David Almond: a perfect storm, or the tip of the iceberg?
- Foster care didn’t kill Ma’Khia Bryant
- Targeted Universalism in child maltreatment prevention: the promise and the challenge
- Preventing child abuse and neglect: It’s time for a broader approach
- When Ideology Outweighs what’s Best for Kids: the case of San Pasqual Academy
- New Jersey to foster parents: thanks but no thanks!
- Declining child abuse? The misuse of data in child welfare
- The Detroit Prevention Project: Preventing child maltreatment by supporting at-risk families
- Hidden child maltreatment: One more reason to vaccinate teachers and open schools
- What can happen when a child is left in an abusive home: the sad case of Lisa Montgomery
- Therapeutic residential care: A necessary option for foster youth with greater needs
- “Upending child welfare” means devaluing Black children’s lives
- Hello Baby: Innovative child maltreatment prevention program launches in Allegheny Co., PA
- Maryland child custody committee recommends specialized judges for custody cases involving child abuse or domestic violence
- Child protection in the time of Covid-19: what we know and what we can do
- America loses champion for a child-centered child welfare system
- Schools and agencies should reach out to at-risk children before schools close
- Impact of coronavirus on child welfare: a one-sided federal view
- When social distancing can kill: child protection during a pandemic
- Homebuilders program, never proven effective for family preservation, approved regardless by Title IV-E Clearinghouse
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