Child Welfare Monitor
OCTOBER 14, 2024
These two young people had something in common–a long history of neglect (and sometimes abuse) by their parents and a failure to intervene by child welfare services despite multiple reports that children were in danger. In Colt’s case, the intervention may have also come too late to prevent serious psychological damage.
Child Welfare Monitor
OCTOBER 5, 2024
As an illustration, I am reposting my 2022 review of Roberts’ most recent book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer Worl d. child welfare system. ” Those who liked Shattered Bonds will likely love Torn Apart.
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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
DECEMBER 18, 2022
It crops up over and over when there’s any story about what family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) do to families. There aren’t enough beds for little guys that need this level of care, and the child welfare system has to kind of figure out ‘how can we do the best with what we have?’”
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
After decades of expanding the child welfare surveillance state to the point that more than one in three children and a majority of Black children will be forced to endure the trauma of a child abuse investigation by the time they turn 18, some states have noticed: Theyve been doing the same thing over and over and getting the same lousy results.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents. But the court’s not holding up its end of the deal, he said.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
AUGUST 25, 2021
The child welfare system—the assemblage of public and private child protection agencies, foster care, and preventive services—is a crucial part of the carceral machinery in Black communities. ? And from Legal Services of New Jersey, an outstanding panel setting the record straight about substance use and child welfare.
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