ICYMI: In comic fiction and tragic reality the lesson is the same: Conform precisely to middle-class white-picket-fence lifestyle – or risk losing your kids www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/in-m... #childwelfare #childabuse #mepolitics #meleg
In comic fiction and tragic reality the lesson is the same: Conform precisely to middle-class white-picket-fence lifestyle – or risk losing your kids https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/in-maine-child-welfare-its-more-like.html #childwelfare #childabuse #mepolitics #meleg
In Maine “child welfare” it’s more like 1001 clowns – and there’s nothing funny about them

Tragic life imitating comic art illustrates why Maine – and every other state – needs a “balance of harms” law.   Art …   The movie has a ...

A bill in the Maine Legislature would require judges to balance alleged harm of a home to the harm of #fostercare before tearing apart a family. This story from The Maine Monitor illustrates perfectly why it’s needed https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/in-maine-child-welfare-its-more-like.html #childwelfare #childabuse #mepolitics #meleg
The movie was a comedy; the real-life version playing out in Maine is a tragedy - thanks to the Maine #childwelfare agency: https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/06/in-maine-child-welfare-its-more-like.html #fostercare #childabuse #familypreservation #mepolitics, #meleg
In Maine “child welfare” it’s more like 1001 clowns – and there’s nothing funny about them

Tragic life imitating comic art illustrates why Maine – and every other state – needs a “balance of harms” law.   Art …   The movie has a ...

Maine legislators really ought to think twice about a #childabuse reporting law that doesn’t let doctors think even once. https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/02/child-welfare-in-maine-some-lawmakers.html #fostercare #childwelfare #mepolitics, #meleg
Child welfare in Maine: Some lawmakers want to strengthen a law that prohibits doctors from thinking.

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...

The Maine Morning Star has a good story about some data released by OCFS. OCFS is spinning it as good news – but is it? Take a brief trip into the weeds to find out: https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/02/maine-family-police-agencys-good-news.html #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare #mepolitics, #meleg
Maine family police agency’s “good news” may not be so good

...unless you're a child taken by the Maine family police - in  which case you might never go home. (Photo by Jimmy Emerson) The Maine Morni...