Adoption Domestic Violence Welfare 
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JULY 23, 2023
Cara, who asked to keep her last name private, said she had already been in touch with a domestic violence organization about her ex. If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides. Enter the Fearmonger-in-Chief Mass.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2023
To read the account on CR’s website you’d think their suit turned a dreadful, failing “child welfare” system into a shining success story. But just four years later, the Tennessee Department of Child Services, their family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) has opened a bunch of new ones.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 8, 2024
This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare What the cover says How many times have we heard it or read it? Safety, permanency, well-being.” I am a lifelong tax-and-spend liberal and proud of it. But the family police cannot.
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. Research shows the trauma of removal in such situations is worse than any trauma that may be caused by witnessing domestic violence.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 11, 2022
It was followed by a systematic campaign of forced adoption into white homes, spearheaded by, among others, the Child Welfare League of America. But that is exactly what the child welfare “ombudsman” is doing in Maine. I have a blog post documenting in detail how Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Haaland, the case challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act is scheduled to begin TODAY (Nov. Of course, most non-native foster parents who adopt native children are not accused of abusing them. Another post discusses two stories about “shortages” in Massachusetts “child welfare.” 9) at 10:00 am ET. In other news: ?
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