Marc Fader
Albion Correctional Facility
While some New York police agencies already avoid having kids witness a parent’s bust and take steps to ensure care after Mom or Dad are detained, advocates say want more done to limit the effect of arrests and incarceration on children
For more than a decade national child welfare policy has encouraged timely adoptions as way to stabilize the lives of kids in foster care. But the system is challenged when a child’s new home proves to be a bad fit.
Sixteen years ago the federal government put new pressure on states to facilitate adoptions. But it never bothered to track how many of those adoptions fail.
Adoption is a good outcome for many children in foster care. But not every adoptive parent-child combination is meant to be.
S.D. held out hope that her parents would bring her home. That never happened. But avoiding adoption was her choice—and it was a wise one, her lawyer says.
While there’s disagreement among child welfare officials and advocates about all we can do to prevent broken adoptions, there is consensus on a few common-sense steps.
With an emphasis on self-reflection, psychologists at a Bronx homeless shelter are pioneering a new way to coax residents into jobs.
Parent advocates ease the pain of foster care. Will their jobs survive?
Last year, city social workers entered homes nearly 56,000 times to investigate child abuse and neglect allegations–but only rarely could they give families more than trouble. Can we make New York’s kids safer by turning troubled parents into partners?
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