● https://www.preserveourfamilies.org/
is a new website created by family advocates in Minnesota, which, year after
year, tears apart families at one of the highest rates in the country. (Here’s one tragic
example). They have a
powerful new video in support of groundbreaking proposed legislation: the
African American Family Preservation Act.
● It happened again. A child in Philadelphia was taken
needlessly, the system stalled and stalled and stalled and then the
stranger-care parents who had the child tried to play the bonding card. But
unlike in Minnesota, the Legal
Intelligencer reports that a Pennsylvania appeals court didn’t buy it – and
now the family is suing.
● Elizabeth Brico reports on the many ways families –
including her own – are needlessly separated in this story for Prism. In the
course of her reporting she found an incident that perfectly demonstrates the
nature of racial bias in child welfare. I
have a blog post about it.
● Like all child protective services agencies New York City’s
Administration for Children’s Services says it never takes away children
because of poverty. Yet now it’s
bragging about starting a program to reduce the number of times it takes away
children because of poverty. Of course
there are two ways one might try to do this: One way: Provide money. The other:
Inflict more “counseling.” Guess
which ACS chose.
