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May 15, 2025

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…

May 15, 2025

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…

May 6, 2025

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…

April 21, 2025

Minnesota’s War on Charter Schools

The fight to provide every child with educational choice has a new friend. Last month,…

April 21, 2025

How NYC’s Lax Child-Protection Standards Failed Promise Cotton

“They didn’t do s–t.” That’s how Sabrina Coleson described the inaction of the Administration of Children’s…

April 14, 2025

A $4 Billion Settlement in LA Has Implications for the Whole Country

How do we as a society make up for past wrongs? Last week, Los Angeles…

April 9, 2025

The Truth About Child Welfare in America

Last fall, Brittany Patterson was arrested for child endangerment because her 10-year-old son, Soren, was…

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…

January 6, 2025

This Child Welfare Rule Puts Social Justice Over Safety

“The hope and intention is that we’re creating some equity around how we’re supporting family…

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…