It’s becoming increasingly clear that in West Virginia, Child Removal Capital of America, which tears apart families at a rate more than 4x the national average, no impoverished child is safe while the Legislature is in session. The latest bad bill encourages near-instant termination of children’s rights to their parents, no matter why they came into #fostercare And it makes it easier to keep them apart even from their siblings: https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/04/still-another-bad-child-welfare-bill-in.html #wvpol, #wvleg, #wvlegis
Still another bad “child welfare” bill in West Virginia.

The latest bad bill in West Virginia would make it harder to keep siblings together. In some cases, this one encourages moving instantly to ...

NCCPR #Childwelfare Blog: In West Virginia, the Child Removal Capital of America, the bad bills keep on coming: https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/03/in-west-virginia-bad-bills-keep-on.html #childabuse #fostercare #wvpol, #wvleg, #wvlegis
In West Virginia, the bad bills keep on coming

First came the bill that would send caseloads skyrocketing . Now, there’s another well-intentioned bill that would produce horrible results....

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...

Even as a clean and sober WV mom mourns her son who died while in #fostercare, WV media still falsely stereotypes mothers whose children are taken as almost all drug users. It’s almost like an addiction https://www.nccprblog.org/2025/03/childs-death-is-failure-of-west.html #childabuse #wvpol, #wvleg, #wvlegis #childwelfare
Child’s death is a failure of West Virginia foster care, but also West Virginia journalism

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 ...

NCCPR Blog: @NBCNews ignores the real cause of West Virginia’s #childwelfare catastrophe – so their story may make the catastrophe even worse: https://www.nccprblog.org/2024/06/nbc-news-ignores-real-cause-of-west.html #childabuse #fostercare #wvpol, #wvleg, #wvlegis #familypreservation
NBC News ignores the real cause of West Virginia’s child welfare catastrophe – so their story may make the catastrophe even worse

The journalists were so trapped in their own “master narrative” – their preconceived notions going in -- that of course they wouldn’t think ...

Capitol adventures. #wvlegis