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June 2, 2023
America’s Failing Child-Protection System
…Stoner, to live with them. He beats Demon, locks him in his room for days at a time, and makes him scrub the floors with bleach until he practically passes…
May 31, 2023
Children Are Dead Because Activists Say It’s Racist for ACS to Act
…the result of an agency that is stretched too thin. According to the New York Times, that neighborhood’s “caseworkers have an average load of 12.5 cases, ACS said — about…
May 30, 2023
Parenting While High
…We are not addressing this problem. To begin with, states have faced growing pressure to stop testing mothers and infants for drugs at the time of birth. Even when drug testing does…
May 27, 2023
How Newborns Are Becoming Victims of Legalized Marijuana Use
…this mother’s problems after all. As more states legalize drug use, child welfare agencies are having a harder time detecting when such usage puts children in harm’s way — and…
April 4, 2023
Why Foster Children Are Sleeping in Offices and What We Can Do About It
…of court 12 separate times in 2022 for failing to provide an appropriate placement for foster children—the last finding centering on a 15-year-old girl who was held in a mental hospital for…