Addiction Child Welfare Foster Care 
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 13, 2025
to control her addiction. A New York City mother, known in court papers as Ms. used drugs during her pregnancy. gave birth, the newborn tested positive for methadone which had been prescribed to Ms. But New York Citys family police agency, the Administration for Childrens Services, charged her with neglect. The agency didnt stop there.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 26, 2024
There are two very important things to know about the process by which a child welfare agency removes a child from a parent and places that child with some other kinship caregiver. This process, known as kinship foster care, is usually the least harmful form of foster care. Easier than what?
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2021
Two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about foster care in West Virginia. Yet the equivalent happens, over and over and over, when the topic is foster care. Parents who lose their children to foster care, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately nonwhite.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MAY 27, 2022
She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 3, 2024
● Tearing children from their parents because the parents are receiving medication-assisted treatment to control drug addiction doesn’t just impose enormous needless trauma on the children. In The Des Moines Register a Native American parent writes, and speaks, about her experience with the Indian Child Welfare Act.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JUNE 16, 2022
Dorothy Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania, a member of NCCPR’s Board of Directors, just wrote a book called Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. The first, Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare was published 20 years ago.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 8, 2023
That includes meth and heroin addicts, but also hundreds of marijuana users and even some people who didn’t know they were pregnant. Hospital staff are required to report positive drug tests to the child welfare agency, and sometimes women lose custody of newborns and older children. The consequences go beyond the jailhouse.
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