US: An accidental experiment during COVID suggests too many children are removed to foster care (May require subscription)
Youth Today – March 15, 2023
In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, some experts worried that children confined at home would be vulnerable to abuse. Brookings Institution scholars wrote in April 2020 that COVID had created “a perfect storm” of isolation and economic stress that would “almost certainly lead to a sharp increase in unreported cases of child abuse and neglect,” and a New York Times op-ed headline the same month warned of a coming “child abuse epidemic.” But the evidence suggests that in some parts of the United States, including New York City, those dire predictions were wrong: while the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc across the country, the epidemic of child abuse never arrived.
Also: Reducing Family Separations in New York City: The COVID-19 Experiment and a Call for Change: https://columbialawreview.org/content/reducing-family-separations-in-new-york-city-the-covid-19-experiment-and-a-call-for-change/