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August 8, 2025
A win for Wisconsin families: Childcare in the 2025-2027 biennial state budget
…low-income families. Competing visions Childcare is an essential but often burdensome expense for working families with young children. Policymakers across the political spectrum generally agree on the importance of helping…
June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…the odds they end up in the principal’s office. They also suggest that policymakers — including leaders such as Govs. Glenn Youngkin and Wes Moore in states such as Virginia and Maryland who have…
April 3, 2025
The dangerous myth that poverty is the cause of child abuse
…them from engaging in services, while also diminishing their ability to protect and care for their children. Oversimplifying the causes of child maltreatment will only lead policymakers to offer ineffective…
April 1, 2025
Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani’s Dangerous Radicalism on Child Welfare
…But as mayor, Mamdani would be ideally placed to put these ideas into practice, just as “progressive” prosecutors use their offices to enact policies that lawmakers reject. It’s hard to…
February 22, 2025
Why Long Island Is Hoping Former Cops Will Become Child Protective Services Workers
…special investigators to work on child abuse cases with DSS signifies that (unlike many policymakers and agency leaders) Blakeman has not lost sight of child protection’s most important function —…
December 19, 2024
How Child Protective Services Have Failed Children
…rose by almost 18 percent. But few policy makers seem very interested in the problem. As researchers Emily Putnam-Hornstein and Sarah Font recently wrote, “in the face of what appears…
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…
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…