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Missing Boy Jacob Pritchett Is a Reminder of Why We Can’t Leave Disabled Kids with Ill-Equipped Parents

It has been a year since anyone saw Jacob Pritchett. The 11-year-old boy, who is autistic…

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The Link Between Maternal Drug Use and Rising Infant Mortality

Mississippi has just declared a public health emergency involving an alarming rise in infant mortality…

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The dangerous myth that poverty is the cause of child abuse

Why does child abuse happen? A new public service announcement says most people think it’s a “bad…

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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…

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Did Maltreatment Fatalities in Texas Really Decline?

A drop in the number of children entering foster care and fatalities due to abuse…

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Why the Riskiest Situation NYC Foster Kids Can Face Is Visiting Their Birth Parents

Between 2020 and 2023, there were 2,154 cases of substantiated abuse and/or neglect of foster…

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The Often Overlooked Link Between Drug Use and Family Decline

Who are the victims when it comes to “deaths of despair”? Recent research has focused…

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The ‘Fentanyl Election’ Is Over. Now What?

Was 2024 the “fentanyl election”? A recent article in The New Yorker by Benjamin Wallace-Wells suggests that…

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The Rotting of the College Board

n 1947, the College Board opened an office in Berkeley, California. Previously, from the turn…

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Another Terrible Idea: Abolishing Child Welfare

The only thing surprising about Dorothy Roberts winning a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” earlier this…

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Justice at Any Cost?

“Almost 9,000 children in California foster care could soon be taken from homes over insurance…

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Why Is Race Still a Factor in Adoption?

“I know you really want to be parents, and I can tell that you would…