NY: How the Pandemic Became an Unplanned Experiment in Abolishing the Child Welfare System (Opinion)
New Republic – August 18, 2021
Some experts feared the worst: that removed from the watchful eyes of the Child Welfare System, children were suffering. Pediatricians, government officials, and researchers warned that the economic and emotional toll of the pandemic was fueling a parallel, hidden child abuse epidemic. But a group of mothers, attorneys, and other advocates who know the foster care system from the inside saw things differently. They had long considered the system overzealous in its investigations of poor Black and brown families. So when child protective services began operating at a whisper of its former self, where others saw danger, these women saw opportunity.
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