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She’s spent decades defending #fostercare Yet she also says “we don’t know whether it’s a powerful intervention toward the positive or a powerful intervention toward the negative.” Actually, we do know: The evidence for negative keeps pilinig up. youthtoday.org/2026/10/massi…

If drug company experimented on millions of children, disproportionately nonwhite of course, without informed consent, found they didn’t know if the drug worked, & just kept on doing it, it would be a crime. In #childwelfare it’s just #fostercare as usual youthtoday.org/2026/10/massi…

She’s spent decades defending #fostercare but now says “we don’t know whether it’s a powerful intervention toward the positive or ... negative.” But hey, they’re just poor kids, disproportionately nonwhite so it’s always OK to experiment on them, right? youthtoday.org/2026/10/massi…

She’s spent decades defending use of #fostercare Yet she also says “we don’t know whether it’s a powerful intervention toward the positive or a powerful intervention toward the negative.” youthtoday.org/2026/10/massi… #childwelfare #childabuse

NCCPR in Youth Today: “A massive human experiment without informed consent”: Prominent researcher and foster care defender says we don’t know if #fostercare does good or harm. So why are we still running the experiment?” youthtoday.org/2026/10/massi… #childwelfare #childabuse

ICYMI: NCCPR on “The F Word” podcast from @comfortcases on high rates of abuse in #fostercare, mountain of evidence documenting inherent harm to children when torn from their homes, and the perverse $ incentives that oil the #childwelfare removal machine youtu.be/1SwiK6UpVdQ?si=hGF3…

ICYMU: NCCPR in @RTDNEWS: Horror stories used to expand #childwelfare surveillance state “are no more representative of typical cases than stories about “migrant crime” are representative of the typical behavior of immigrants.” richmond.com/opinion/column/… #fostercare #childabuse

ICYMI: New Mexico child confiscated at birth because of Mom’s drug use, only to die in #fostercare allegedly at hands of #fostercare parent. It’s tough for some NM media when reality contradicts their “master narrative” nccprblog.org/2026/10/was-sk…

NCCPR on “The F Word” podcast from @comfortcases: How the #childwelfare system really works: A look at perverse financial incentives and much more: youtu.be/1SwiK6UpVdQ?si=hGF3… #fostercare #childabuse

NCCPR on “The F Word” podcast from @comfortcases: Governments don’t make money on #fostercare (though federal aid may make it cost them less than better options) – but private agencies, including nonprofits, sure do: youtu.be/1SwiK6UpVdQ?si=hGF3… #childwelfare #childabuse

NCCPR on “The F Word” podcast from @comfortcases on high rates of abuse in #fostercare, the mountain of evidence documenting the inherent harm to children when torn from their homes, and the perverse $ incentives that oil the #childwelfare removal machine youtu.be/1SwiK6UpVdQ?si=hGF3…

NCCPR in @RTDNEWS: Are VA CPS workers overloaded? Yes: with false reports, trivial cases and cases where poverty is confused with neglect richmond.com/opinion/column/… #fostercare #childabuse #childwelfare

NCCPR in @RTDNEWS: #Childwelfare won’t change until help reaches the families 'struggling for support.' richmond.com/opinion/column/… #fostercare #childabuse

Today’s reminder: In #childwelfare the horror stories go in ALL directions: 14news.com/2026/09/09/mother… #childabuse #fostercare

NCCPR in @RTDNEWS: Horror stories used to expand #childwelfare surveillance state “are no more representative of typical cases than stories about “migrant crime” are representative of the typical behavior of immigrants.” richmond.com/opinion/column/… #fostercare #childabuse

Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation journalism and commentary nccprblog.org/2026/10/nccpr-… #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare

New Mexico child confiscated at birth because of Mom’s drug use, only to die in #fostercare allegedly at hands of #fostercare parent. It’s tough for some NM media when reality contradicts their “master narrative” nccprblog.org/2026/10/was-sk…

NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: Even as New Mexico Governor was bragging no child had died since she imposed a child-confiscation-at-birth directive, one child already may have died at least partly because of that very approach nccprblog.org/2026/10/was-sk… #fostercare #childabuse

NCCPR Blog: Was Skylar Magana a casualty of New Mexico’s child-confiscation-at-birth approach to #childwelfare? nccprblog.org/2026/10/was-sk… #fostercare #childabuse

ICYMI: What does it mean to constantly have to adjust to the rules at one #fostercare placement after another. Says one who’s been there: “As a foster kid, you feel like an invasive species in your own home.” nccprblog.org/2026/10/when-y…