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Breaking up should be last resort

More than 180 Indiana children per week are removed from their homes by the state. For an outsider to say which of those moves are justified and which are not would be a reach of absurd lengths. Yet the broad picture painted by the high and rising figure does call into question the state’s claim [...]

State Accused of Placing Girl With Rapist

By KARINA BROWN  ShareThis     PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) – Oregon took a 5-year-old girl from her parents and placed her in foster care with her grandmother and her grandmother’s husband, who had twice been convicted of rape, and he raped her for 5 years until she reported it when she was 10, the girl, now a [...]

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New York City’s retreat from reform

New York City’s retreat from reform     In all of American child welfare, no one has a tougher job than John Mattingly, commissioner of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services. And there is no one in America who could have done a better job than Mattingly when the system was engulfed in crisis in 2006. [...]

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Deaths highlight child protection flaws

Child protection services have again been criticised for failing to protect Victoria’s most vulnerable children following a review of 16 deaths on the state’s watch. An annual report by the Victorian Child Death Review Committee shows 16 children known to protective services died in the 12 months to March 2010. Three died of non-accidental trauma [...]

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