Wednesday, March 12, 2025

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending March 11, 2025

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● A lawsuit alleges that a child who wandered out of his mother’s home in West Virginia was placed – for that reason alone -- in foster care...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Child’s death is a failure of West Virginia foster care, but also West Virginia journalism

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Here are all the stories I could find in West Virginia on the topic of the needless removal of children from their homes. A lawsuit alleges ...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending March 4, 2025

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● “They literally took her off my breast in the hallway with her screaming at the court hearing,” says Kristen Clark-Hassell, of the day her...
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Texas’ Chief Justice: “When the State goes to court to take somebody’s children, it’s not opening up a collaborative therapy session.”

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Texas Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock This is probably the first time I've ever agreed with Texas Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock. There...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending February 26, 2025

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Before the news: A big virtual event next week. You can register here to learn about “The Protective Power of Cash” at a virtual teach-in M...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

A transformation at Children’s Rights

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There's lots of good stuff in the latest issue of the Family Justice Journal But in particular, don't miss the Foreword on Page 8,  ...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Child welfare in Maine: Some lawmakers want to strengthen a law that prohibits doctors from thinking.

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It’s taken more than half a century but slowly, some people in family policing (a more accurate term than “child welfare”) are realizing tha...