Racial Disparities and Child Protection
The politicisation of medicine has had terrible unintended consequences.
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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Fear and the Overton Window
The movement to abolish child welfare is endangering children, but professionals are afraid to speak up.
The Problem with Lived Experience
Some lived experiences are selected and elevated over others.
Philanthropy and Pluralism
Foundations are having to fend off pressures to conform to the new philanthropic orthodoxies on race and identity issues.
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.
Child Welfare and the Cash Panacea
Poverty is not the cause of abuse and neglect.
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.
Foster Kids Need Their Own Advocates
They are only tasked with getting to know a child and explaining what is in that child’s best interests.
The Problem with Kinship Care
It is not only the state’s consent decree that is pushing it to reduce foster care numbers significantly
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.