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Weed and Kids Are a Risky Mix—but “Garden Moms” Are Toking Up
Motherhood is hard; weed helps: That’s the toxic message from a new group of online…
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Daddy Issues: Review of “Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men’s Lives”
When my husband and I moved into our first house, our closing lawyer handed us…
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Albany Acts to Rescue Kids from Deadly Abuse—10 Years Too Late
Days ago, Albany politicians did the unthinkable: They passed a sensible piece of legislation that…
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States Are Wrestling with How to Deal with Substance-Exposed Infants. New Mexico Offers a Warning
What a difference a few years makes. When New Mexico’s governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, took…
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Why Mamdani’s Foster Care Cuts Make Sense
If Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to balance New York City’s budget—never mind fulfill his campaign’s many promises…
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Child Abuse and Neglect Are Intergenerational Problems. Policies to Protect Children Should Reflect That
Hurt people hurt people. Just because that phrase has become a mantra of therapeutic babble…
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Deadly Child-Abuse “Torture” Exposes NY’s Willful Blindness
Little Jor’Dynn Duncan should never have gone to live with Emily Kelly, the Long Island woman…
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Why We May Never Know of Child-Welfare Workers’ Fatal Mistakes
Looks like a lot of CYA going on at ACS. That’s the conclusion of a…
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One of the Worst Laws in America Deserves a Hearing Before the Supreme Court
Kelly and Nate Reyelts have fostered about 50 children. Kelly is a teacher and Nate…
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New Mexico’s Attorney General Is Suing His State’s Broken Child-Welfare Agency
It’s not uncommon for state child-welfare agencies to be taken to court. In fact, most…
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Zohran Mamdani’s ACS Choice Puts ‘Racial Equity’ Above Keeping NYC Kids Safe and Alive
‘“It’s really hard to think about anything other than dismantling [the child welfare system] entirely…
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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…