Not every publication is willing to hear out both sides so fully. Thanks to The Free Press for publishing my new piece: The Truth About Child Welfare in America thefp.com/p/the-truth-ab… American Enterprise Institute Independent Women

It is hard to accept that the “oldest and largest organization committed to preventing child abuse and neglect before it happens" continues to raise and spend money for a program that has never been proven to prevent child abuse and neglect! childwelfaremonitor.org/2025/04/11/the…

“Somebody ... should have been in constant contact with this single mother with records of mental health issues, not taking her medication, with a child with a disability and a 4-year-old.”

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Begidu Morris died in silence and darkness in 2022, tortured and starved and finally beaten to death. Yet his adoptive parents have not been charged and they and his brother remain in their "pristine" home in Lee County Florida. #JusticeforBegidu childwelfaremonitor.org/2025/04/25/a-l…

"Just surveillance and foster care" is what the head of NJ Department of Children and Families calls the basic functions of child welfare; truly the rejection of child protection. childwelfaremonitor.org/2025/05/08/the…

A Reality Check on Family First: It Has Nothing to Do with the 50% Decline in Indiana’s Foster Care Caseloads. By Emily, Sarah Font, and Brett Drake and published in Child Welfare Monitor.childwelfaremonitor.org/2025/05/29/a-r…

Indiana DCS cut foster care in half — and now claims children are safer indystar.com/story/opinion/… via IndyStar Emily

New York’s Child Services Says It’s Saving Lives—Count Us Skeptical city-journal.org/article/new-yo…

Children diagnosed with "attachment disorder" are being abused by adoptive parents, often based on controversial "attachment therapies" that are not accepted by mainstream mental health professionals. This is happening to too many children. bit.ly/4efwO2J

Family separation under Trump II. Maksim will spend his ninth birthday in foster care because his parents, eligible for asylum, refused to be deported to Russia. childwelfaremonitor.org/2025/08/12/the…

The continued decline in foster care placements: What, if anything, are children and families getting instead? We just don't know. childwelfaremonitor.org/2025/09/01/the…

DC violates federal law on release of child fatality information, a new post on my new Child Welfare Monitor DC Substack! open.substack.com/pub/childwelfa…

D.L. died in 2024. His mother had previous allegations of abusing D.L.’s older sibling. There were a total of 8 CPS calls, resulting in two open CPS cases, prior to D.L.’s death. The mother was reported to smoke marijuana and drink alcohol, and had a history of mental health

Essential article from Sarah Font: Protecting Kids in Foster Care Requires a Bigger, Better-Trained Workforce city-journal.org/article/macken…

This is one of those examples of a @wadcyf social worker doing everything right, but being completely hamstrung by HB 1227’s refusal to treat parental substance abuse as a serious danger to children. Newborn B.S. was beaten to death with a hammer just about a week after coming

D.M. died of a drug overdose in October 2024. At the time of D.M’s death, the family had an open CPS case. There were 15 CPS CALLS resulting in 9 OPEN CPS CASES for this family from 2020 until D.M.’s death in 2024. These investigations indicated both parents abused substances,

Why do child welfare professionals make decisions and policy that diverge so greatly from community norms? childwelfaremonitor.org/2025/10/01/chi…