Parents With Disabilities Face an Uphill Battle to Keep Their Children
Child removals due to disability are increasingly common, but parents have begun to fight back.
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Child Welfare
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Should Los Angeles County Predict Which Children Will Become Criminals?
One major difference separates troubling Minority Report policing programs from what happened in L.A. County's child welfare system.
Is It Time to Start Shutting Down Group Homes for Troubled Children?
At a hearing last week in Washington there was a renewed call for addressing the violence and neglect that plagues group homes for foster youth.
A New Film Challenges Shaken Baby Syndrome, and Courts Controversy
Meryl and Susan Goldsmith’s documentary, The Syndrome, has been boycotted and protested against for its portrayal of SBS as outdated science.
From the System to the Street
The factors and figures behind the so-called “foster care to prostitution pipeline”
Should We Take Away the Children of Those Who Are Mentally Ill?
Mindi has never harmed her daughter and is capably raising a son, but authorities took her daughter under a concept sometimes called “predictive neglect.”