NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

News and commentary from the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform concerning child abuse, child welfare, foster care, and family preservation.

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 29, 2026

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● What is the result when some of the worst journalism about child welfare and some of the worst political demagoguery about child welfare h...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Did a media-fueled foster-care panic contribute to a child’s death in Silicon Valley?

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Source: California Child Welfare Indicators Project KEY POINTS   ● After two children known-to-the-system died in Santa Clara County, Ca...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 21, 2026

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● New Mexico’s Attorney General has issued a report on the state’s “child welfare” system that combines the Donald Trump approach to fearmon...
Monday, April 20, 2026

Our full rebuttal to the New Mexico Attorney General's dangerously wrong report on "child Welfare"

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The report on uses ugly, Trump-style tactics to stereotype families caught up in the system, shows an RFK Jr.-style disregard for science, m...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

NCCPR in Source NM: New Mexico AG Torrez’s report on CYFD is dangerously wrong

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One year ago, just as New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez was beginning his investigation of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Maryland’s $1.2 billion "child welfare" blunder

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It turns out this agency has an enormous amount of money to spend on institutionalizing children That’s how much the state is likely to spen...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 14, 2026

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● A depressing number of journalists fall for the fearmongering of private foster care agencies when they say the sky will fall if they can...
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National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
The members of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform have encountered the child welfare system in their professional capacities. Through NCCPR, we work to make that system better serve America’s most vulnerable children by trying to change policies concerning child abuse, foster care and family preservation. Unless otherwise noted, all posts on this blog are by NCCPR's Executive Director, Richard Wexler Contact us at info(at)nccpr(dot)info phone: (703) 212-2006
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