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June 20, 2025
What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis
…tell them that the world is a dangerous place rife with apocalyptic scenarios, that people have bad intentions, and that they are under threat. This view is common not only…
June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…benefit from the presence of an active and engaged good dad in their lives. Brad Wilcox is a distinguished university professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and a…
April 3, 2025
The dangerous myth that poverty is the cause of child abuse
…families in poverty. But using federal funding to mislead the public into believing that housing assistance and free lunches are a cure-all for child maltreatment is absurd and, frankly, dangerous….
April 1, 2025
Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani’s Dangerous Radicalism on Child Welfare
Socialist state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani has made a splash in the race for New York City mayor. A relentless social media campaign has helped him raise big dollars, despite his long-shot odds against incumbent…
April 1, 2025
Did Maltreatment Fatalities in Texas Really Decline?
…an act or failure to act that results in harm to the child or that creates an immediate danger to the child’s physical health or safety. This new requirement means…
August 27, 2024
Poverty Isn’t Neglect, and Money Isn’t Always the Answer
…Fortunately, it’s not true. The claim that children are separated from their parents when they are in no real danger but simply lack of material resources is repeated often. Advocates…
June 26, 2024
Reducing Racial Disparities in Foster Care Might Endanger Black Children
…suspected incidents of maltreatment solely because a fetus or a newborn is exposed to drugs. Such policies of course run the risk of leaving more kids in danger. Moreover, because…
May 31, 2024
ACS Has Lost the Plot
…apology for their inexcusable decision to close the case involving Jalayah’s brother, ACS has just published its spring Strategic Priorities update. Commissioner Jess Dannhauser boasts in his introductory letter, “We…
March 27, 2024
Narcan Babies
…to the danger. In New Mexico, legislators attempted to pass a bill classifying fentanyl exposure as child abuse. Though the bill received unanimous endorsement from the state’s Courts, Correction, and…
March 21, 2024
Why Foster Kids Aren’t Getting the Mental Health Care They need
…are prevented from caring for these kids at all. The crisis in youth mental health — particularly since the pandemic — is now widely acknowledged. But there is a danger…