Wednesday, January 14, 2026

A Nevada County forces families to gamble with their children’s lives

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  The county offers families a cruel choice – and effectively admits they DO police families for poverty “alone.”   Over and over, family po...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending January 13, 2026

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    ● Of course, the biggest news of the past week is the publication of a blockbuster study on the relationship between the number of child...
Sunday, January 11, 2026

NCCPR in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette: A better approach for state child care

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If you really want to fix a child welfare system, the solution is simple: Listen to your gut instinct – and do the opposite.  Gut instinct...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

The Rhode Island approach to Child Welfare: Throw away the money, throw away the kids!

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The Rhode Island family police agency wants to spend up to $26 million  to buy and renovate a residential treatment center that closed after...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

The “logic” behind America’s massive child welfare surveillance state is the equivalent of a house of cards. Thanks to a new study, it just collapsed.

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KEY POINTS   ● For decades, we were told we have to take away more children to stop child abuse deaths. If you dare take fewer, it was cla...
Monday, January 5, 2026

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, weeks ending January 2, 2026

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● This first item made it into our “Year-in-Review” last week, but in case nobody read that far down:  Just as the year was ending, famili...
Monday, December 29, 2025

NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2025, part two

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For part one, which illustrates how the horror stories go in all directions, see the previous post to this blog. POVERTY AND NEGLECT ●  ...