Sunday, November 29, 2020

NCCPR in CommonWealth Magazine on Mass. child welfare: Child safety and family preservation are not opposites

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  IT’S NOT REALLY   that hard to fix a child welfare system: just listen to your gut instinct – and do the opposite. Gut instinct says: Davi...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending November 24, 2020

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 ● Last week we noted a report from Community Legal Services of Philadelphia on the harm done to children by the state’s central register of...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Adoption of children from foster care: National Child Welfare Hypocrisy Day, 2020

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  This post originally appeared in 2008. Since the event is annual, I've reprinted it on several occasions since, with revisions and upd...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending November 17, 2020

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● Why in the world would progressive child advocates be urging the incoming Biden Administration to keep in place the leadership team in the...
Sunday, November 15, 2020

Big city child welfare: Philadelphia gets a little better, Los Angeles gets worse, and the “professional kidnappers” are hard at work in Phoenix

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In addition to tracking the propensity of states to take children from their families, NCCPR does a separate index for America’s top ten cit...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending November 10, 2020

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● You’ve probably heard both sides of the debate over that Supreme Court case involving religious agencies seeking the right to discriminate...
Monday, November 9, 2020

NCCPR in Florida Times-Union on fixing Florida foster care

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I have often written that the solution to the problems of journalism is more journalism.   Six years ago, bad journalism from the  Miami H...