NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 22

  ● Kansas has its own special, ugly little version of hidden foster care. I have a blog post on How the Kansas “child welfare” agency mak...

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 15, 2025

● The family policing system in Philadelphia tears apart families at the second highest rate among America’s largest cities, even when rates...

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending April 1, 2025

● Gotta give the Oregon family police agency credit for chutzpah. According to Oregon Public Broadcasting,  Disability Rights Oregon (DRO) c...

Decades of “health terrorism” have led many of us to believe a series of myths about the nature and scope of #chidlabuse – myths reinforced during Child Abuse Hype and Hysteria Month. Our annual effort to set the record straight: https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/04/our-annual-reminder-if-its-april-fools.html #fostercare #childwelfare #familypreservation
Our annual reminder: If it's April Fools, it must be Child Abuse Hype and Hysteria Month

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED APRIL 1, 2010 , MOST RECENT UPDATE:  MARCH 29, 2025. Back in 2003, one of the groups most responsible for fomenting hyp...

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

● What happens when you tear apart families at a rate more than double the national average and find yourself with no place to put them? For...

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: A well-intended bill will, if enacted, make everything even worse in the child removal capital of America: #wvpol, #wvleg, #wvlegis #fostercare #childabuse #familypreservation https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/03/just-what-west-virginia-child-welfare.html
Just what West Virginia child welfare doesn’t need: A 48.7% INCREASE in “child welfare” investigator caseloads

West Virgina State Capitol (Photo by O. Palsson) But that’s what West Virginia is likely to get if a well-meaning, but ill-thought-out propo...

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending March 18, 2025

● Remember when Tennessee pulled over a couple for no good reason and then took away their children? In that one, the offense was Driving Wh...

Every year, the federal government has put out a report that tells us vital information about #fostercare But there's no sign of it yet this year. Will we ever see another AFCARS report? https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/03/getting-basic-federal-data-on-foster.html #childwelfare #childabuse #familypreservation
Getting basic federal data on foster care: Will it come to this?

  "Psst - hey bud. Ya wanna see an AFCARS report?" Yesterday (March 13, 2025) was an anniversary of sorts.  It marked the first anniversar...

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

● 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...

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

● “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...