Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Maine legislative committee opposes the worst of the LePage bills

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Fool me once, the adage goes, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.  Maine journalists and lawmakers had been fooled into accepting ma...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Remembering George Sheldon …

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... Including the legacy the Miami Herald wants you to forget George Sheldon When former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, then a Rep...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Exploiting tragedy to tear apart families: Did LePage learn from Trump or was it the other way around?

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SEE THE UPDATE TO THIS POST HERE ● Maine Governor’s child welfare proposals represent the triumph of fear and ignorance over proven succes...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

The evidence is in: Study after study after study finds that in typical cases children left in their own homes fare better than comparably-maltreated children placed in foster care

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UPDATED, OCTOBER 2025 There are a couple of studies that I cite so often on this blog and elsewhere that I once suggested readers could ru...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

For the record: No, Los Angeles County does NOT have the nation’s largest child welfare system

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No matter how many times the Fox News of Child Welfare says it does, it’s still not true. I have previously noted the serious potent...
Thursday, August 9, 2018

The story New Hampshire CASA really, really REALLY doesn’t want you to read

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I’m going to provide a link to a story about a horrific case of abuse in foster care in New Hampshire and a lawsuit filed in connection wi...
Monday, August 6, 2018

NCCPR in Youth Today: After anonymous child abuse reporting Is “weaponized” to attack family of #BlackLivesMatter activist, congressional candidate asks “What’s going on?” Here’s the answer.

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When she first learned that journalist and  Black Lives Matter  activist Shaun King and his family were being  harassed by a troll  who had...