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4/23/2024
Annie Sciacca
In Texas, policy changes and state legislation has lessened the state's reliance on foster care.
1/8/2024
John Kelly
Federal child maltreatment numbers from 2022 show that the level of abuse and neglect reporting in the country returned to pre-pandemic levels, while fatalities rose for a fifth year.
7/28/2023
Michael Fitzgerald
Reflecting a growing movement to tease out poverty from the many reasons U.S. children are taken into foster care, a new bill before Congress requires states to avoid maltreatment investigations that center solely on a family’s homelessness or lack of financial resources.
2/14/2023
Sara Tiano
Maryland may be the first state to protect domestic abuse survivors from being charged with neglect for their child’s exposure to the abuse.
2/9/2023
New federal data shows the number of child abuse and neglect victims declined to a record low for the third straight year.
1/31/2023
Opinion
Richard Wexler
"Neglect" is not a gateway allegation — unless you take data out of context by presenting numbers without ratios or ratios without numbers.
8/5/2022
The Imprint staff reports
Judge Tracy Green, a child welfare judge in Wayne County, Mich., faces removal from the bench for her role in a child abuse case that involves her son and grandchildren.
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5/19/2022
Starting in August, children in Colorado will have more freedom to roam unsupervised without exposing parents to child neglect investigations.
5/16/2022
Diane Redleaf
Diane Redleaf reviews some promising developments for those interested in sharpening the definition of neglect in child welfare law
2/13/2022
The confirmation hearing for Biden's top two child welfare officials took place last week, and the topics of discussion at the hearing are likely a strong indicator of what child welfare issues are front and center for various factions of D.C. in 2022.