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July 14, 2024
…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
…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
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…
April 5, 2024
…Testing, Social Work Assessment and Custody at 5 Hospitals,” Academic Pediatrics 23, no. 6 (August 2023): 1268–75, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36754165; and Sebastian Schoneich et al., “Incidence of Newborn Drug Testing and Variations by…
March 14, 2024
…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
…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,…
January 21, 2024
…on the steering wheel, my Hispanic Uber driver asked with exasperation, “What did they think was going to happen?” Portland can seem dystopian. A naked homeless man in a wheelchair…
November 11, 2023
…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
…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
…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…