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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 influencers — “gardeners,” they like to call themselves — who advocate using cannabis to deal with the…
Op-Ed
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 puts kids’ needs over adults’ desires. “The legislature recognizes that the safety of children is…
Op-Ed
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 office in 2019, she touted a “public health” approach to the state’s child welfare issues….
Op-Ed
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 of “free” stuff—he is going to need to make some cuts. And so he has:…
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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 doesn’t mean it’s not true. A study to be published soon in the National Bureau…
Op-Ed
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 who allegedly tortured the 7-year-old girl to death. Kelly, along with her mother and her…
Op-Ed
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 new report by the Department of Investigation detailing how the Administration for Children’s Services withholds…
Op-Ed
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 is a physician assistant. They have been raising their seven biological children in their home…
Op-Ed
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 of them have been the subject of class action lawsuits by groups like A Better…
Op-Ed
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 and creating something different.” This is according to Rebecca Jones Gaston, New York City’s newly…
Op-Ed
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 and nonverbal, was reported missing in October. But, as far as anyone can tell, he was…
Op-Ed
No, It Doesn’t Make Sense to Give Cash to a Drug-Abusing Parent
“There’s really nothing scarier for a parent than having the government come to your door, forcibly take your kid from you, not be sure where they’re going, not be sure…