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July 14, 2024
Fostering Normalcy for Foster Kids
…kids who are in the foster care system. Because you need a guardian to co-sign accounts for anyone under 18, foster kids are often left out. NorthCountry Credit Union in…
June 26, 2024
Reducing Racial Disparities in Foster Care Might Endanger Black Children
…The only racial or ethnic group currently subject to different treatment is Native children under the Indian Child Welfare Act, which (similar to the Minnesota law) requires different measures for…
April 9, 2024
Child Abandonment in the Name of Compassion
A self-described libertarian friend once described to me the feeling she had when it was time to leave the hospital with her newborn baby. She remembered looking at the nurse…
March 14, 2024
The Chipping Away at Safe Haven Laws
…ideology that privileges racial heritage over the best interests of the child. It is true that the federal Indian Child Welfare Act requires efforts to place a foster child with…
March 1, 2024
How the Children’s Bureau Lost Its Way
…On March 31, 1905, Chicagoans Jane Addams and Mary McDowell joined Lillian D. Wald, founder of New York’s Henry Street Settlement, and Edward T. Devine, editor of the journal Charities,…
November 11, 2023
Why is NYC Telling Teachers to Not Keep Kids Safe?
…found that Black children “were killed by family members at about seven times the rate for white and Asian children and three times the rate for Hispanic children.” But no,…
October 23, 2023
Teach Your Children Well
…are also real habits and real pieces of knowledge that enable some kids to get ahead. And they matter a lot more than whether you know different words for Italian…
October 10, 2023
New White House Proposal to Further Alienate Religious Foster Parents
…motivated to do this work because of their faith. And more than 80% attribute their success in fostering to the support of their faith. As Jedd Medefind of the Christian…
September 18, 2023
No Culture Wars, Please, We’re Academics
…seeks to maintain her standing in her narrow world, Ian Rowe of the American Enterprise Institute has been going around the country trying to get schools to teach the “Success…
August 12, 2023
Why Ending Child Services Is the New Defund the Police
…lectured public servants about why it should be eradicated. There are few people, including this author, who would argue that the child welfare system doesn’t need reform. But the utopian…