Sunday, August 26, 2007

NPR: It still stands for No Parent Response

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Back in January, 2006, shortly after Nixzmary Brown died and some news organizations were scapegoating efforts to keep families together, Na...
Monday, August 13, 2007

Why the New York City police should hire 100 social workers

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This was originally published August 13, 2007, before this blog was on Blogspot.  I've reposted it here now because it is newly-relevant...
Sunday, August 12, 2007

Why the New York City police should hire 100 social workers

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Suppose, hypothetically, after an extreme case of police brutality made headlines in New York City, the Mayor ordered the city’s Department ...
Sunday, August 5, 2007

Class and courage trump the Red Queen

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This is a story about class and courage at a child protective services agency – in Florida, no less. It doesn’t begin well, of course. It b...
Sunday, July 29, 2007

The children wronged by "Children's Rights"

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The organization with the breathtaking arrogance to name itself “Children’s Rights,” as though the adults who run it and their wealthy benef...
Sunday, July 15, 2007

An Arizona newspaper's double standards are showing

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Last May, I wrote about a reporter for the Arizona Daily Star who produced a front-page story condemning a tiny financial incentive to encou...
Sunday, July 8, 2007

The evidence is in

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NCCPR long has argued that many children now trapped in foster care would be far better off if they had remained with their own families and...