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June 26, 2024
Reducing Racial Disparities in Foster Care Might Endanger Black Children
…whether to place a child in foster care be made without the decision-makers knowing the race of the child. This was intended to counter a long history of Black children…
June 23, 2024
Is Systemic Racism Responsible for the Increase in Child Mortality Rates?
How is it that in the richest country on Earth, life expectancy has been falling? This is the question that many policymakers and consumers of news have been asking themselves…
May 31, 2024
ACS Has Lost the Plot
…foster care—an artificial number that agency leaders and policymakers can manipulate to suit their purposes. The entire report is filled with measures and programs that have little to do with…
April 23, 2024
Neglected Representation in Foster Care
…These proposals are far from revolutionary. But absent the attention of the court system and lawmakers, foster children will continue to get inadequate legal representation. In the vacuum created by…
December 11, 2023
How to make smartphones and apps safer for kids
…the Institute for Family Studies has heard from lawmakers around the country that they aim to follow suit in 2024. Utah’s legislative boldness has kicked off a revolution in how…
June 2, 2023
America’s Failing Child-Protection System
…which was passed in 1997, required states to make “reasonable efforts” at family preservation before terminating parental rights. But lawmakers allowed that there might be “aggravated circumstances” that would make…
May 30, 2023
Parenting While High
…heavy machinery or practicing medicine. In all these cases, lawmakers have drawn a bright line. Even in localities where drug use is legal, parenting young children while intoxicated should not…