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March 29, 2026

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…

October 3, 2025

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…

April 3, 2025

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…

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…

April 1, 2025

Did Maltreatment Fatalities in Texas Really Decline?

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

December 14, 2024

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…

December 11, 2024

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…

December 3, 2024

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…

November 14, 2024

The Rotting of the College Board

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

October 14, 2024

Another Terrible Idea: Abolishing Child Welfare

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

September 27, 2024

Justice at Any Cost?

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

September 21, 2024

Why Is Race Still a Factor in Adoption?

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