Thursday, September 10, 2020

NCCPR in the Arizona Daily Star: COVID-19 is not leading to more child abuse, it’s cleaning the 'pollution' of false reports

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Faced with the fact that COVID-19 led to a drop in calls to Arizona’s child abuse hotline but children are being torn from their families at...
Wednesday, September 9, 2020

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending September 9, 2020

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● What does it do to a family to be terrorized by an angry, abusive ex-spouse calling in false child abuse reports and hiding behind the abi...
Monday, September 7, 2020

UPDATED: KENTUCKY FRIED DATA: Nobody knows which state has the “most” child abuse. So please, Kentucky media, could you stop claiming it’s Kentucky?

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It’s at least as likely that what Kentucky really leads in is confusing poverty with neglect. Source: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Serv...
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending September 1, 2020

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● Three stories, one blog post: NPR’s Rachel Martin did a great interview with a Black single mother trying to hold down a job and also make...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

UPDATED: “We move in silence”: Stories illustrate the constant threat to families from the child welfare surveillance state -- and how traumatizing children can be dismissed as just “an oopsy daisy.”

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               As schools start again, NPR is broadcasting a series of stories about how families are coping.   In one excellent story , Mor...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

NCCPR News and commentary round-up, week ending August 25, 2020

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● We start with the call to action from the Shriver Center on Poverty Law.   Under the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), with...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Great news: We no longer need children’s advocacy centers! (If the head of their own trade association is to be believed.)

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Turns out they know all the answers before they even ask the questions – so why bother? The head of the trade association also says we shoul...