Naomi Schaefer Riley

Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the AEI and the author of No Way to Treat a Child: How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives.

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A sad-looking teen boy with light brown skin, of African American appearance.

Racial Disparities and Child Protection

The politicisation of medicine has had terrible unintended consequences.

Naomi Schaefer Riley

30 Oct 2024 · 8 min read

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Fear and the Overton Window

The movement to abolish child welfare is endangering children, but professionals are afraid to speak up.

Naomi Schaefer Riley

31 May 2024 · 8 min read

The Problem with Lived Experience

Some lived experiences are selected and elevated over others.

Sarah A. Font / Naomi Schaefer Riley

17 Jul 2023 · 7 min read

Philanthropy and Pluralism

Foundations are having to fend off pressures to conform to the new philanthropic orthodoxies on race and identity issues.

Naomi Schaefer Riley / James Piereson

13 Jun 2023 · 5 min read

America’s Failing Child-Protection System

If Governor DeSantis really wants to protect children, he should forget about the death penalty and institute a “one-strike-and-you’re-out” policy instead.

Naomi Schaefer Riley

2 Jun 2023 · 7 min read

Child Welfare and the Cash Panacea

Poverty is not the cause of abuse and neglect.

Naomi Schaefer Riley

24 Jan 2023 · 6 min read

Child Welfare Is Becoming a Joke

The field is mired in risible theory and impenetrable jargon, and increasingly divorced from concern with the welfare of children.

Naomi Schaefer Riley

16 Sep 2022 · 6 min read

The Problem with Kinship Care

It is not only the state’s consent decree that is pushing it to reduce foster care numbers significantly

Naomi Schaefer Riley

12 Dec 2020 · 9 min read

Is Foster Care Racist?

The complaints of structural racism and a desire to abolish foster care will sound familiar to anyone who has been listening to the recent debate about policing.

Naomi Schaefer Riley

26 Jun 2020 · 8 min read

Naomi Schaefer Riley

Racial Disparities and Child Protection

Fear and the Overton Window

The Problem with Lived Experience

Philanthropy and Pluralism

America’s Failing Child-Protection System

Child Welfare and the Cash Panacea

Child Welfare Is Becoming a Joke

Foster Kids Need Their Own Advocates

The Problem with Kinship Care

Is Foster Care Racist?