Adoption Foster Care Self-harm 
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 10, 2023
Sarah Font is telling foster youth boils down to this: You can have a free college education – as long as you forego any chance that there will be a family cheering you on at graduation. After following issues involving foster care for decades, I’ve gotten used to the extent to which people in the system hate birth parents.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 28, 2023
That false narrative, pushed hardest by those who hate birth parents (and yes, that’s the right word) claims that only adoption guarantees a truly permanent home for a child removed from her or his parents. Partly that’s because adoptions sometimes fail. They also take less time to achieve than adoptions.
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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. Most of all she is wrong to ignore the enormous harm of needless removal. ? She is dangerously wrong.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 3, 2023
It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. But like everything else in family policing, the reasons children wind up in foster care are arbitrary, capricious, cruel – and subject to racial and class bias.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
They think they’re going to be working with families, helping families to engage in services, to be self-sufficient, to move on to higher education,” Everett said. The story begins and ends with the story of Maria Toscano and her desperate efforts to schedule a visit with her children in foster care. So they quit.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Landers’ research: “more than 80% of Native American people who were fostered or adopted eventually reunify.” ● In New York, a bill that would allow children continued contact with their parents even after their legal rights to those parents have been terminated has – again – been passed by the State Legislature. That lasted 11 days….
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Here’s what they write: Some may argue that because all harm indicators included here (e.g., Two of them, Sarah Font and Emily Putnam-Hornstein, are part of a group that did indeed send a letter – a letter rushing to the defense of a self-proclaimed “race realist” law professor who pals around with Tucker Carlson. On the contrary.
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