Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Foster care in dairyland: CR brings its war against grandparents to Wisconsin

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When 13-month-old Christopher Thomas of Milwaukee was beaten to death by the aunt who was caring for him, everyone familiar with child welf...
Monday, March 7, 2011

Foster care in Connecticut: Will you-know-who undermine real reform?

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Connecticut is the great underachiever in child welfare.  Year after year, the state spends on child welfare at one of the highest rates in ...
Thursday, March 3, 2011

The best defense against needless foster care is – a good defense

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             After speaking at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas last week, I was asked what would be the very first step I would take to ...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Supreme Court to hear the case for full Fourth Amendment rights for kids

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            Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court hears its first major child protective services case in more than 21 years.   We review the iss...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

The day the shelter closed in North Platte, Nebraska

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            I’ve written before about the seductive appeal of “shelters,” those first-stop parking places for children torn from their pare...
Monday, February 21, 2011

“Graphic” evidence of foster care failure (and, occasionally, success)

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It’s no secret to anyone who reads this Blog that NCCPR believes far too many children are in foster care.   We believe that, for the overwh...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

UPDATED, FEB. 19: Foster care panic in Los Angeles: It’s been curbed, but it’s not over

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ALSO: THE PARALLELS BETWEEN TIMES EDUCATION COVERAGE AND TIMES CHILD WELFARE COVERAGE KEEP GROWING Ever since his shoddy reporting set of...