Former Foster Youth Receives $5.5M Settlement in Abuse Case

A plaintiff has settled his case against the county that placed him with his adoptive father, a former pediatrician for foster youth.

The Imprint
NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 2, 2026

● A lawsuit challenging the New York City family police agency’s misuse of its power to tear apart families without even going through the ...

When #childwelfare establishment types minimize the inherent trauma of being torn from one’s family by saying “#fostercare isn’t perfect, but…” it rubs salt in the wounds of the traumatized https://www.nccprblog.org/2026/05/what-happens-when-family-police-and.html #childabuse
What happens when the family police and their enablers in politics and journalism treat impoverished children and their families as sub-human? A story in The New Yorker has some answers.

A story in The New Yorker notes that  “A.C.S. acknowledges that many of its caseworkers have  ‘experienced the toddler whose little fingers ...

A tsunami of children’s suffering, when they are wrongly cast into #fostercare is routinely dismissed by the #childwelfare establishment and its enablers in politics and journalism. A story in The New Yorker brings some of it to light: https://www.nccprblog.org/2026/05/what-happens-when-family-police-and.html #fostercare #childwelfare #childabuse
What happens when the family police and their enablers in politics and journalism treat impoverished children and their families as sub-human? A story in The New Yorker has some answers.

A story in The New Yorker notes that  “A.C.S. acknowledges that many of its caseworkers have  ‘experienced the toddler whose little fingers ...

A mountain of research tells us children in #fostercare are more likely to suffer serious illness – and to die prematurely, than even comparably-maltreated children left in their own homes. But that’s only the beginning of their suffering: https://www.nccprblog.org/2026/05/what-happens-when-family-police-and.html #fostercare #childwelfare #childabuse
What happens when the family police and their enablers in politics and journalism treat impoverished children and their families as sub-human? A story in The New Yorker has some answers.

A story in The New Yorker notes that  “A.C.S. acknowledges that many of its caseworkers have  ‘experienced the toddler whose little fingers ...

What happens when the family police and their enablers in politics and journalism treat impoverished children and their families as sub-human? A story in The New Yorker has some answers. https://www.nccprblog.org/2026/05/what-happens-when-family-police-and.html #fostercare #childwelfare #childabuse
What happens when the family police and their enablers in politics and journalism treat impoverished children and their families as sub-human? A story in The New Yorker has some answers.

A story in The New Yorker notes that  “A.C.S. acknowledges that many of its caseworkers have  ‘experienced the toddler whose little fingers ...

ICYMI: NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: There’s a group that’s been selling states on a parallel hidden system that amounts to sugar frosted #fostercare. But, thanks to the state’s highest court, New York won’t be buying it https://www.nccprblog.org/2026/05/there-will-be-no-sugar-frosted-foster.html #childabuse
There will be no sugar-frosted foster care in New York

  NOT SOLD IN NEW YORK! The state’s highest court slays what one critic called “a hydra-headed quasi-foster care monster, with all of the ha...

ICYMI: NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: Avoiding needless #fostercare saves children’s lives! And in NY and NJ it’s possible to estimate how many lives have been saved by #familypreservation https://www.nccprblog.org/2026/05/how-nycs-reduction-in-foster-care-saves.html #childwelfare #childabuse
How NYC’s reduction in foster care saves children’s lives; and Suffolk County’s foster-care panic puts those lives at risk

In addition to saving lives, the efforts of New York City and New Jersey to curb needless foster care also saved thousands of children from ...

ICYMI: NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: NY’s highest court slays what 1 critic called “a hydra-headed quasi-#fostercare monster, with all of the hallmarks of foster care but none of the legal protections the law demands.” https://www.nccprblog.org/2026/05/there-will-be-no-sugar-frosted-foster.html #childabuse
There will be no sugar-frosted foster care in New York

  NOT SOLD IN NEW YORK! The state’s highest court slays what one critic called “a hydra-headed quasi-foster care monster, with all of the ha...

ICYMI: NCCPR in @CTMirror: Once on the verge of being one of the least bad #childwelfare systems in America. But here’s why @CTDCF is slouching back toward mediocrity https://ctmirror.org/2026/05/26/ct-dcf-is-slouching-back-to-mediocrity-to-save-more-children-it-must-refocus-on-keeping-families-together/ #fostercare #childabuse
CT’s DCF, slouching back to mediocrity.

To make CT children safer, the time to refocus on curbing needless foster care is now!

CT Mirror