Tuesday, October 28, 2025

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending Oct. 28, 2025

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Before the week in review, a note about a new resource from NCCPR: The Good Bill Bank has links to excellent legislation from around the co...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending October 21, 2025

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● Serial, the famous podcast shop that’s now part of The New York Times , is the latest to examine the enormous harm to children done by so...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Death at an early age: A Swedish study finds it’s FOUR TIMES more likely for those who’ve been in foster care

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Our entire massive child welfare surveillance state – a system so omnipresent that it will investigate the families of one-third of all Amer...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

NCCPR in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: A take-the-child-and-run approach to child welfare makes kids less safe

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Faced with horrifying child abuse deaths, often in cases that were well known to child protective services agencies, there are two ways to r...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending October 14, 2025

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This week’s round-up begins with exposés of foster care horrors from one end of the country to the other:   ● I have a blog post about les...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Lessons from Hawaii’s “Lord of the Flies” foster home

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It went on for decades. Rampant sexual abuse in the Hawaii foster home of John Teixeira. Caseworkers failed to check on the children. Not on...
Thursday, October 9, 2025

NCCPR in the Kansas Reflector: Yes, there’s a way to make child abuse horrors less common in Kansas — but it’s not what you think

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 A child dies a gruesome death. The child was “known to the system.” In fact, the case file had more “red flags” than a Soviet May Day parad...