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NY State Courts Are Blocking Children’s Services in Domestic Violence Cases—and That Needs to Change
Should the Administration for Children’s Services get involved when women are being beaten by their partners while their kids are around? The answer seems to be no, according to two recent decisions…
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Do Babies Belong with Drug-Addicted Mothers? New Mexico Has a Change of Heart
“The 4-month old was the last straw.” That’s what Maralyn Beck, executive director of the Child First New Mexico Network, told me, explaining why the state has finally announced a radical…
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“Wards of the State” Review: Lives Knocked Off Course
In 2024 Michigan jurors convicted the parents of Ethan Crumbley of involuntary manslaughter, determining that they could have done more to prevent their teenage son from killing four of his…
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Albany Will Slice a Lifeline for New York’s Abused Kids—Unless Kathy Hochul Takes a Stand
Want to report a case of child abuse? Better be prepared to give your name and phone number, too. The state Legislature last month passed a bill that would outlaw…
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Bill Gates Makes a Bet: Foundations of the Future Free Market
“We’re not running out of rich people,” Bill Gates recently told David Wallace-Wells of the New York Times Magazine in an interview about why he was deciding to close the doors of his foundation in 20…
Op-Ed
New York Child Services Says It’s Saving Lives—Count Us Skeptical
Jess Dannhauser, commissioner of the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is doing a bang-up job—at least according to his defenders. In a recent article, “Why New York’s child…
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Apologies Won’t Help Native American Communities, and Neither Will Reparations
Kathy Hochul is very sorry. The governor of New York recently went to visit the Seneca Nation’s territory in upstate New York to apologize for the fact that the state…
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Financial Aid Follies: The Trump Administration and College Affordability
“Maybe breaking these programs is not an unfortunate side effect that might happen. It’s actually the intended goal, to cause disruption.” That was Judith Scott-Clayton, a professor of economics and…
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Insiders Reveal Why ACS Decided to Leave Kids in Hands of Abusive Parents
“Pathetic.” That’s how Kevin O’Connor describes the response from Administration for Children’s Services Commissioner Jess Dannhauser in The Post last week to accusations that his agency is prioritizing progressive ideology over…
Op-Ed
When It Comes to Gun Violence, the Kids Are Not OK
“The kids are OK.” That’s host Gayle King reporting on CBS Morning News about a video taken by an overhead drone in which 7- and 9-year-old brothers are seen waving…
Op-Ed
Seven Children Died in Abusive New York City Homes Because Progressives Say It’s Racist to Save Them
Who wants to work for the Administration for Children’s Services? Almost no one, apparently. According to The Post’s reporting this week, the agency is struggling to retain employees, with almost…
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Minnesota’s War on Charter Schools
The fight to provide every child with educational choice has a new friend. Last month, Namgyal Choedup, the Dalai Lama’s North American envoy, noted in a letter to Minnesota’s state legislature that…