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.

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Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Amazingly she had already adopted a number of strategies and capacities from those previous helpers. I am Gary Direnfeld and I am a social worker. Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert in social work, marital and family therapy, child development, parent-child relations and custody and access matters.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Agents were also convinced of the subnormal intelligence of most non-WASP and especially non-English-speaking clients; indeed, the agents' comments and expectations in this early period were similar to social workers' views of black clients in the mid-twentieth century…. It still happens, of course, but it happens less.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

. ● The Western New England Law Review has a superb summary of the research showing the enormous harm to children caused when they are taken from domestic violence survivors. But read it only if you are ready to reconsider everything you think you know about adoption. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. A social worker who doesnt want to report kids in dirty clothes to CPS. Heres the surprise: The agencies response boiled down to well yes, youre right. The allegation was unfounded.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 9, 2024

These families frequently consist of mothers with children by multiple fathers, with both parents often suffering from mental illness and/or drug abuse, and domestic violence is commonly present. Frontline workers faced with this type of client could look a little harder to see if the lack of a van was the real issue.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 13, 2025

was born) for issues including use of heroin, marijuana and alcohol in the home; lack of supervision of the children; domestic violence; an unsafe caregiver living with the family; an unsafe and unclean living environment unsecured guns in the home out-of-control behaviors by B.B.s During the ten years before B.B.s

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

A commission in Colorado actually recommended removing one category of mandated reporter -- advocates for survivors of domestic violence and narrowing the definition of neglect. A bill has been introduced to implement those recommendations. By the standards of family policing, those acts are revolutionary.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 4, 2024

At almost three years old, and after two straight years in foster care with the same family that fostered her from the start and wanted to adopt her, Harmony was returned to her mother for the second time. Harmony was returned to her mother at seven months, and removed again at ten months. New Mexico: $5.5

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