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The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform works to change America's approach to #childabuse, #childwelfare, #fostercare
Exposes of needless foster care and poverty-confused-with-neglect and big wins for family advocates highlight part two of our 2025 Year in Review: www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/nccp... #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare #familypreservation
NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2025, part two
For part one, which illustrates how the horror stories go in all directions, see the previous post to this blog. POVERTY AND NEGLECT ● ...
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December 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Exposes of needless foster care and poverty-confused-with-neglect and big wins for family advocates highlight part two of our 2025 Year in Review: www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/nccp... #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare #familypreservation
In Part two of our 2025 year in review, highlight news and commentary about the harm #childwelfare systems due to children and how the #familypreservation movement fights back against needless #fostercare www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/nccp...
NCCPR family preservation news and commentary round-up for the year 2025, part two
For part one, which illustrates how the horror stories go in all directions, see the previous post to this blog. POVERTY AND NEGLECT ● ...
www.nccprblog.org
December 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
In Part two of our 2025 year in review, highlight news and commentary about the harm #childwelfare systems due to children and how the #familypreservation movement fights back against needless #fostercare www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/nccp...
In #childwelfare the horror stories go in all directions all year long. Here’s our 2025 review of some of what happened to children thrown into #fostercare – in the name of child safety www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/in-c...
In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long (2025 Edition)
Part one of NCCPR’s news and commentary year in review for 2025 Part two, on this blog tomorrow, looks at some of 2025’s finest journali...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
In #childwelfare the horror stories go in all directions all year long. Here’s our 2025 review of some of what happened to children thrown into #fostercare – in the name of child safety www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/in-c...
In part of of NCCPR’s news and commentary year-in-review: A reminder that in #childwelfare, the horror stories go in all directions – all year long www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/in-c...
In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long (2025 Edition)
Part one of NCCPR’s news and commentary year in review for 2025 Part two, on this blog tomorrow, looks at some of 2025’s finest journali...
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December 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In part of of NCCPR’s news and commentary year-in-review: A reminder that in #childwelfare, the horror stories go in all directions – all year long www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/in-c...
Our annual holiday reminder:
December 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Our annual holiday reminder:
NY children will be safer from needless, traumatic investigation; workers will have more time to find children in real danger, as NY replaces anonymous #childabuse reporting with confidential reporting: imprintnews.org/child-welfar...
NY Governor Signs Law to End Anonymous Reporting
New York has joined Texas as the only two states to ban anonymous reporting of child maltreatment concerns
imprintnews.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
NY children will be safer from needless, traumatic investigation; workers will have more time to find children in real danger, as NY replaces anonymous #childabuse reporting with confidential reporting: imprintnews.org/child-welfar...
ICYMI: NCCPR in the Nevada Current: When children are thrown into #fostercare because their parents lack adequate housing, you know what the *real* problem is? It’s HOUSING: nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/15/t... #childweflare #childabuse
The real problem is housing • Nevada Current
More than 20 years ago, the journal of the Child Welfare League of America devoted an entire issue to the problem of children removed to foster care or trapped there because their families didn’t…
nevadacurrent.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
ICYMI: NCCPR in the Nevada Current: When children are thrown into #fostercare because their parents lack adequate housing, you know what the *real* problem is? It’s HOUSING: nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/15/t... #childweflare #childabuse
Vengeful ex-spouses, landlords and others with grudges are going to lose a powerful weapon against innocent families in NY: If they want to report those families for #childabuse, the #childwelfare agency will have to know who they are: imprintnews.org/child-welfar...
NY Governor Signs Law to End Anonymous Reporting
New York has joined Texas as the only two states to ban anonymous reporting of child maltreatment concerns
imprintnews.org
December 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Vengeful ex-spouses, landlords and others with grudges are going to lose a powerful weapon against innocent families in NY: If they want to report those families for #childabuse, the #childwelfare agency will have to know who they are: imprintnews.org/child-welfar...
ICYMI: NCCPR in the Nevada Current: The real problem is housing. The desperate search for “other reasons” homeless kids wind up in #fostercare says more about the system than the families nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/15/t... #childweflare #childabuse
The real problem is housing • Nevada Current
More than 20 years ago, the journal of the Child Welfare League of America devoted an entire issue to the problem of children removed to foster care or trapped there because their families didn’t…
nevadacurrent.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
ICYMI: NCCPR in the Nevada Current: The real problem is housing. The desperate search for “other reasons” homeless kids wind up in #fostercare says more about the system than the families nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/15/t... #childweflare #childabuse
Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation journalism and commentary: www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/nccp... #childabuse #childwelfare #fostercare
NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 16, 2025
● You know how family police agency workers often claim they can’t throw children into foster care entirely on their own? Check out this sto...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation journalism and commentary: www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/nccp... #childabuse #childwelfare #fostercare
NCCPR in the Nevada Current: Nevada tears apart families at a rate more than 40% above the national average – but they’re still “in denial” about the confusion of poverty with neglect nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/15/t... #childweflare #childabuse #fostercare
The real problem is housing • Nevada Current
More than 20 years ago, the journal of the Child Welfare League of America devoted an entire issue to the problem of children removed to foster care or trapped there because their families didn’t…
nevadacurrent.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
NCCPR in the Nevada Current: Nevada tears apart families at a rate more than 40% above the national average – but they’re still “in denial” about the confusion of poverty with neglect nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/15/t... #childweflare #childabuse #fostercare
NCCPR in @nevadacurrent.com The real problem is housing. The desperate search for “other reasons” homeless kids wind up in #fostercare says more about the system than the families nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/15/t... #childweflare #childabuse
The real problem is housing • Nevada Current
More than 20 years ago, the journal of the Child Welfare League of America devoted an entire issue to the problem of children removed to foster care or trapped there because their families didn’t…
nevadacurrent.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
NCCPR in @nevadacurrent.com The real problem is housing. The desperate search for “other reasons” homeless kids wind up in #fostercare says more about the system than the families nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/15/t... #childweflare #childabuse
NCCPR in @nevadacurrent.com When children are thrown into #fostercare because their parents lack adequate housing, you know what the *real* problem is? It’s HOUSING: nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/15/t... #childweflare #childabuse
The real problem is housing • Nevada Current
More than 20 years ago, the journal of the Child Welfare League of America devoted an entire issue to the problem of children removed to foster care or trapped there because their families didn’t…
nevadacurrent.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
NCCPR in @nevadacurrent.com When children are thrown into #fostercare because their parents lack adequate housing, you know what the *real* problem is? It’s HOUSING: nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/15/t... #childweflare #childabuse
NCCPR in the Toledo Blade (sub required): The increased costs facing Lucas County Children Services are not the fault of a federal law or state stinginess. They’re the fault of the county’s own fecklessness www.toledoblade.com/opinion/lett...
To the editor: County Children Services won’t do its own heavy lifting
The increased costs facing Lucas County Children Services are not the fault of a federal law or state stinginess. They’re the fault of the county’s own ...
www.toledoblade.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
NCCPR in the Toledo Blade (sub required): The increased costs facing Lucas County Children Services are not the fault of a federal law or state stinginess. They’re the fault of the county’s own fecklessness www.toledoblade.com/opinion/lett...
NCCPR in the Toledo Blade (sub required): If Ohio stopped tearing apart families at a rate 50% above national average, counties wouldn’t have to warehouse kids in RTCs, and wouldn’t have to cave to their rate increase demands www.toledoblade.com/opinion/lett...
To the editor: County Children Services won’t do its own heavy lifting
The increased costs facing Lucas County Children Services are not the fault of a federal law or state stinginess. They’re the fault of the county’s own ...
www.toledoblade.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
NCCPR in the Toledo Blade (sub required): If Ohio stopped tearing apart families at a rate 50% above national average, counties wouldn’t have to warehouse kids in RTCs, and wouldn’t have to cave to their rate increase demands www.toledoblade.com/opinion/lett...
NCCPR in the Toledo Blade (sub required): Family First requires almost nothing of institutions warehousing kids. But in one Ohio county, providers use it as excuse to jack up rates. Lucas County promptly caves. www.toledoblade.com/opinion/lett...
To the editor: County Children Services won’t do its own heavy lifting
The increased costs facing Lucas County Children Services are not the fault of a federal law or state stinginess. They’re the fault of the county’s own ...
www.toledoblade.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
NCCPR in the Toledo Blade (sub required): Family First requires almost nothing of institutions warehousing kids. But in one Ohio county, providers use it as excuse to jack up rates. Lucas County promptly caves. www.toledoblade.com/opinion/lett...
When judges ask tough questions lawyers call it a “hot bench.” This one was on fire! And at long last, a “#childwelfare” agency, normally accountable to no one for what it does to children, took some heat www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/chil... #childabuse #fostercare
Child welfare in New York: “Despicable” them.
That’s just one of the choice words appellate court justices applied to the behavior of the New York City family police agency during oral a...
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December 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
When judges ask tough questions lawyers call it a “hot bench.” This one was on fire! And at long last, a “#childwelfare” agency, normally accountable to no one for what it does to children, took some heat www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/chil... #childabuse #fostercare
NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: “Despicable” them. That’s just one of the choice words appellate court justices applied to the behavior of the New York City family police agency during oral argument last week. www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/chil... #childabuse #fostercare #domesticviolence
December 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: “Despicable” them. That’s just one of the choice words appellate court justices applied to the behavior of the New York City family police agency during oral argument last week. www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/chil... #childabuse #fostercare #domesticviolence
NCCPR in @TheImprintNews on how we keep letting #fostercare apologists put the burden of proof in the wrong place imprintnews.org/opinion/safe... #childabuse #childwelfare
Safer Than What?
Foster care apologists set an incredibly low bar — but still can’t clear it. They've put the burden of proof in the wrong place.
imprintnews.org
December 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NCCPR in @TheImprintNews on how we keep letting #fostercare apologists put the burden of proof in the wrong place imprintnews.org/opinion/safe... #childabuse #childwelfare
You know how #childwelfare workers often claim they can’t throw children into #fostercare entirely on their own? Check out this story in @TheImprintNews which makes clear once and for all: Most of the time: they’re *lying* imprintnews.org/top-stories/... #fostercare #childabuse
Most Kids Taken Into Foster Care Before Parents Get a Hearing
Despite federal law, emergency removals account for 70% to 95% of all entries into foster care, data collected by The Imprint shows.
imprintnews.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
You know how #childwelfare workers often claim they can’t throw children into #fostercare entirely on their own? Check out this story in @TheImprintNews which makes clear once and for all: Most of the time: they’re *lying* imprintnews.org/top-stories/... #fostercare #childabuse
Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation journalism and commentary: www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/nccp...
NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 9, 2025
● I’m not sure how to talk about this first item without sounding all clickbaity, but what happened in a New York appellate court late last ...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation journalism and commentary: www.nccprblog.org/2025/12/nccp...
Now that a Swedish study shows that, compared to comparably-maltreated children left in their own homes children placed in #fostercare are 4x more likely to die by age 20, at long last will burden of proof shift to those who want to keep taking away all those kids? imprintnews.org/opinion/safe...
Safer Than What?
Foster care apologists set an incredibly low bar — but still can’t clear it. They've put the burden of proof in the wrong place.
imprintnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Now that a Swedish study shows that, compared to comparably-maltreated children left in their own homes children placed in #fostercare are 4x more likely to die by age 20, at long last will burden of proof shift to those who want to keep taking away all those kids? imprintnews.org/opinion/safe...
Today’s reminder: In #childwelfare the horror stories go in ALL directions: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... #childabuse #fostercare
WA to pay $9 million to woman who said she was sexually abused in foster care
Allegations of abuse suffered by children in the state's foster care system over several decades have driven a rise of lawsuits as survivors ask for justice.
www.seattletimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Today’s reminder: In #childwelfare the horror stories go in ALL directions: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... #childabuse #fostercare
Study after study shows that, on average, children do worse in #fostercare even than comparably-maltreated children left in own homes. So when will the burden of proof shift to the foster care apologists to show that what *they* do works? imprintnews.org/opinion/safe... #childabuse #childwelfare
Safer Than What?
Foster care apologists set an incredibly low bar — but still can’t clear it. They've put the burden of proof in the wrong place.
imprintnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Study after study shows that, on average, children do worse in #fostercare even than comparably-maltreated children left in own homes. So when will the burden of proof shift to the foster care apologists to show that what *they* do works? imprintnews.org/opinion/safe... #childabuse #childwelfare
NCCPR in @TheImprintNews on how we keep letting #fostercare apologists put the burden of proof in the wrong place imprintnews.org/opinion/safe... #childabuse #childwelfare
Safer Than What?
Foster care apologists set an incredibly low bar — but still can’t clear it. They've put the burden of proof in the wrong place.
imprintnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
NCCPR in @TheImprintNews on how we keep letting #fostercare apologists put the burden of proof in the wrong place imprintnews.org/opinion/safe... #childabuse #childwelfare