Adoption Counseling Domestic Violence 
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
She was not accused of beating them or raping them or torturing them No, as happens so often in Massachusetts and across the country, the children were torn from Toscano because she was, herself, allegedly a victim of domestic violence at the hands of her husband.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2023
When the agency sought to persuade the foster parents to adopt, here’s what the foster father says he was told: “Family will come out of the woodwork when we do this. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs.) But here the family police give away what really happens. But] We’ll handle them for you.”
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 8, 2024
The family police took the noble concept of permanence and confused it with permanence in only one form – the paper permanence of formal adoption by strangers. It opted for the paper permanence of adoption, in which often a child is cut off from Mom and Dad to the point of doing everything possible to eradicate them from that child’s life.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2023
The public policy arm has done outstanding work questioning things like the mad rush to terminate children’s rights to their parents (a more accurate term than termination of parental rights) to push them into adoptive homes. A member of NCCPR’s Board of Directors was co-counsel for plaintiffs.)
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
She is wrong about domestic violence, she is wrong about truancy, she is wrong about “alternative response,” she is wrong about false reports and she is wrong to call for more institutionalization of children. (If Rather they witnessed domestic violence. NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs.)
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 25, 2022
The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. One way to reduce the harm of ASFA is, of course, to provide real help to families.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
This post is adapted from a virtual presentation I gave last month to the Racial Justice Task Force of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, Child and Family Law Division. My group’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs. It still happens, of course, but it happens less.
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