Tuesday, September 1, 2026

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending September 1, 2026

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● The big news this week includes publication of an outstanding new book. In Making Families, Breaking Families , child welfare’s foremost a...
Monday, August 31, 2026

Confusing poverty with neglect, from coast to coast

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Two stories in the news last week aptly illustrate that, no matter how deep in denial the child welfare establishment may be about it, they ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 25, 2026

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● Maine’s highest court has ruled that no, the state family police agency can’t keep a family apart forever just because mom can’t afford ho...
Sunday, August 23, 2026

Maine fails to keep a family apart forever just because of poverty – but not for lack of trying

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The Maine Supreme Judicial Court Compare the trauma Maine family police inflicted on this family to the restraint shown by their counterpart...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, -- John Oliver Edition - week ending August 18, 2026

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● It was bound to happen eventually: Sooner or later, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver would take on some of the enormous harm done by fa...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 12, 2026

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● The Marshall Project and CBS News Sunday Morning produced a stunning in-depth report on how the family police persecute pregnant women if ...
Thursday, August 6, 2026

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 4, 2026

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● Even if you think you know all about the horrors of “residential treatment,” this story from The Marshall Project still shocks. From the ...