Welfare
“The only way to end the destruction caused by the child welfare system is to dismantle it,” said Dorothy Roberts, host of the new Ms. Studios podcast, Torn Apart. On Monday, Nov. 13, Ms. magazine is dropping a brand-new podcast, Torn Apart: Abolishing Family Policing and Reimagining Child Welfare, which investigates how the U.S. child […]
Part of the Series The Road to Abolition There is an old saying that “when white folks catch a cold, Black folks get pneumonia.” That saying speaks to a fundamental truth about the U.S.: Black people are positioned to catch hell because of historical and contemporary systemic forms of inequality. After the overturning of Roe […]
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it hopes to weed out false or misleading animal-welfare claims on meat and poultry packaging with new guidance and testing. The claims __ such as “pasture-raised,” “humanely raised,” and “raised without antibiotics” __ are increasingly popular with consumers and allow producers to charge a premium. Perdue “free range” […]
An African American father and son. (Getty Images) After 22 days in the custody of Child Protective Services (CPS), Mila Jackson, a newborn baby, was returned to her parents. But Temecia and Rodney Jackson say . . .
The department declined to comment further on the two cases. Richards now feels intense dread when any of her children have even a minor injury or come down sick, fearing that DCS will show up again if she takes them to the doctor. And in the years since her own experiences with Arizona’s child welfare […]
A new report from the Human Rights Watch (HRW) and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Thursday revealed that the US child welfare system uses poverty level as a justification for the removal of children from their parents and charges of neglect. The 146-page report calls for immediate attention to an issue which the two organizations […]
(New York) – Child welfare systems in the United States too often treat poverty as the basis for charges of neglect and decisions to remove children from their parents, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a report released today. The system’s disproportionate impact on Black and Indigenous families and […]
Gretchen Whitmer’s Solution for Broken Child Welfare System: ‘Sexual Orientation’ and ‘Gender Identity’ Consulting Washington Free Beacon Source link
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