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Arizona’s Top Child Welfare Leader Goes on Offensive Against Class Action Lawsuit
Lawsuits, particularly class-action lawsuits, can be used to force public systems to right wrongs and make reparations by ensuring mistakes of the past aren’t repeated. In the case of child... By Christie Renick This post Arizona’s Top Child Welfare Leader …
A time for outrage
A guest post by Dr Patricia Fronek, Senior Lecturer in the School of Human Services and Social Work, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University. Tricia is the creator and producer of Podsocs It is indeed a time for outrage. The far right is exerting …
Eight Ways to Keep Foster Parent Candidates Interested
We have a nationwide shortage of foster families and everyone is interested in increasing this number. At Binti, we work with more than 40 agencies across the country, who serve... By Guest Writer This post Eight Ways to Keep Foster …
Tonier Cain Deserves an Evidence-Based Apology
Tonier Cain. Photo: Yi-Chin Lee/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Editor’s note: Over 15 years, Tonier Cain was arrested 83 times, and convicted 66 times. She was addicted to crack. She was a prostitute. She had four children and lost them to …
Ethics and Society Newsfeed – April 6, 2018
Image via Bioethics/Medical Ethics/Animal Ethics The Human Thing: When It’s Not About “Bioethics” “In the place of narcissistic and subjective dignity wrongly invoked by procreation militants, we need a return to the transcendent and objective dignity of human nature.” …
Alabama Bus Crash Raises Questions: How Can Kids Stay Protected?
Even when entrusting your children to what you think are the safe conditions at school, deadly accidents can happen.
Why do women have sexual fantasies of rape?
The United Nations describes violence against women as a “pandemic in diverse forms.” Thirty-five percent of women have experienced sexual and/or physical violence, often in intimate relationships. In some nations, an unimaginable seventy percent of women have suffered sexual and/or physical violence …
Child welfare and civil liberties: When we betray our principles, we betray our children
Late last year, The New York Times published a story about the frightening amount of power, and the frightening lack of accountability, among some of America’s county sheriffs.
Alabama child welfare reforms hold lessons for everyone – but especially, at the moment, Oregon, Iowa and Indiana
The Arizona Daily Star is in the middle of publishing the results from a year-long investigation into how to fix the child welfare system in that state. As I’ve noted before, the answers are relevant to every state. Right at the moment, the answers may …
