Sunday, November 28, 2021

Illinois “child welfare” sets a terrible record in 2020

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The Illinois foster care panic may have ended  in Chicago. But it's still tragically strong in  other parts of the state. The foster-car...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending November 24, 2021

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I don't know if you can say "the handwriting is on the wall" for New York City's family policing agency, but this is one o...
Friday, November 19, 2021

An adopted foster child dies in Hawaii – but nobody seems to be asking the right questions

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Ariel Sellers, as she was known before her adoption, was reported missing by her foster/adoptive parents. Now they've been charged with ...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending November 17, 2021

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 ● Let’s start by looking ahead to Saturday – it’s time for National Adoption Day!  Cake! Ice Cream! Balloons at the courthouse!  Because wh...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

You get what you pay for: How Florida shifted funding priorities to foster care

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Child welfare’s foremost data nerd has weighed in on the mess in central Florida child welfare caused by – well caused by a lot of things, i...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

The $20 million boondoggle that perfectly illustrates the banality of child welfare thinking

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            Compared to the billions of dollars wasted on things like harming children by institutionalizing them , the small item discusse...
Monday, November 15, 2021

End child welfare’s public celebration of family executions

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On this Saturday - “National Adoption Day” - who will stop to remember that for some children and some young adults every mass adoption cere...