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Fixing Our Child Welfare System to Help America’s Most Vulnerable Kids

Independent Women's Forum

December 6, 2022

Every day, more and more children in America lack a safe, permanent, and loving

home. Evidence increasingly shows that child welfare agencies and family courts aremuch more concerned with adults’ needs and sensibilities than with children’s safety.While reform must come from many different corners of this field, Congress should committo creating a stronger and smarter child welfare system—one that puts the needs ofthe nation’s most vulnerable population first.Read the full report here.

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