- 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
- When school is safer than home: school closures, home schooling and child abuse
- Kinship Diversion: A parallel system of foster care
- The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez: an all-too familiar story
- The Murder of Thomas Valva: Corrections to my earlier post
- The murder of Thomas Valva: Another innocent child betrayed by Family Court and CPS
- Child Maltreatment 2018: Almost one in 100 children found to be maltreated, but great variation among states and populations
- Washington Post on foster care: old tropes and false narratives
- First “Family First” Plan to be approved shows limits of new law
- Around the country, states face shortage of placements for youth with greater needs
- Family First Act: no funding for important drug treatment and mental health services
- Title IV-E as Payer of Last Resort: The Achilles Heel of the Family First Act?
- System-induced School Absenteeism: The hidden scourge of foster care
- Family court crisis: courts placing children with abusive parents with tragic results
- Family First Act: a False Narrative, a Lack of Review, a Bad Law
- The Noah Cuatro Report: Another whitewash by the Los Angeles Office of Child Protection
- Los Angeles County missed many chances to save Anthony Avalos
- Who’s watching the children? Abuse more likely when child is with male caregiver
- When will they ever learn? Another little boy dead on DCFS’ watch in Antelope Valley
- Illinois’ Intact Family Services: What happens when family preservation trumps child safety?
- The foster care crisis in Massachusetts: common sense solutions, not ideology, are needed
- Primary prevention of child maltreatment should include family planning
- Strong and Thriving Families: The Unreal World of the Children’s Bureau
- Reducing Congregate Care Placements: not so easy, not always good for kids
- Inspector General: Child safety and well-being no longer priorities for Illinois Department of Child and Family Services
- Therapeutic Group Homes: Needed Programs in Danger from Family First Act
- Supporting homelike residential settings: a needed correction to the Family First Act
- Feds confuse substantiation with victimization
- Yet another child abandoned by another state: Two-year-old Jordan Belliveau dead at his mother’s hands in Florida
- Race, Tribe and Child Welfare: How Identity Policy Trumps Children’s Needs
- The misuse of data and research in child welfare: home visiting and infant removals in New York State
- Why America needs an Interstate Child Abuse and Neglect Registry
- Caring about Children Isn’t Racist
- Why No One Saved Gabriel Fernandez
- Sibling Separation: An Unintended Consequence of the Family First Act?
- No, family separations are not all the same
- Abuse death of Anthony Avalos after 16 reports: the public needs to know why
- Child Welfare Myths: Indian Child Welfare Act Protects Indian Children
- Child Welfare Myths: Black/White Disproportionality in Child Welfare is due to Racist Child Welfare System
- Family Separation at the Border: The Ultimate Anti-Child Policy
- Opioid Crisis: Removing Infants from Mothers on Medication Assisted Treatment is Misguided
- Texas children adopted out-of-state: what happens when the push for adoptions goes too far?
- Let’s recognize that foster care is a job–and pay accordingly
- Abusive parents are using homeschooling to avoid detection
- “Steady March Toward Child Fatality Prevention” leaves Many Endangered Children Unprotected
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