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Challenging Handmaid’s Tale jurisprudence in child welfare

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

to control her addiction. In fact, the control the government demands can predate conception. 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. The agency didnt stop there.

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Why Playing the Lottery Is So Addictive

Gateway Foundation

The lottery is a common entertainment source that can quickly become addictive. Playing the lottery can become addictive when an individual develops an unhealthy compulsion to engage in it. While purchasing lottery tickets occasionally does not indicate an addiction, playing the lottery excessively can become an addiction.

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These women lost their children because they were lesbians – why can’t the government say sorry? | Sophie Wilkinson

The Guardian

In July, a radio producer contacted me to tell me about 74-year-old Judi Morris, whose son George had slid into heroin addiction and fallen in and out of the criminal justice system. It is for this reason that I was shocked to learn only recently of the state having removed children from the custody of lesbian mums.

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Another journalist discovers the “secret bombing” of families by CPS – when the shrapnel reaches into the white middle-class

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Consider the examples she cites concerning other family police excesses: People have called CPS on parents for letting children play alone in the backyard, for the sin of being a recovering addict whose child was born with a rare medical condition, even for urging a hungry child to learn how to use a can opener. She’s right.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 7, 2022

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

I know my mom struggled with addiction, but I was always in a clean home with clean clothes," she said. "I The federal government released a report on what was done to Native American children by the antecedents of today’s “child protective services” -- a system of so-called “boarding schools.”

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In California, “child welfare’s” ACEs evangelists are saying the quiet part out loud

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The study makes no reference to high scores meaning the subject’s parents are “Addicts, Alcoholics, Mentally Ill, Violent, Criminal, Deadbeats.” However, so far no government agency has offered to put dollar bills in my pharmacy along with the various vitamins and other medications." It isn’t a racial issue either.

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Power, privilege, and passing judgment in “child welfare”: The Massachusetts “Child Advocate” gets it wrong again

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

There is, in fact, a place for government in assisting with children’s wellbeing. Government can provide voluntary help to their families, especially financial help for better housing and high-quality childcare. But government should never be allowed to become the Wellbeing Police.