US: “Pervasive,” “ubiquitous,” “extremely high”: New data reveal the extent of the invasion of Black homes by family policing agencies. (Opinion)
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog – July 22, 2021
In 2017, a national study was published which revealed that about one-third of all children and more than half of Black children will be forced to endure a child abuse investigation at some point during their childhoods. Earlier this year, a California study produced similar results. But, at least when it comes to most of America’s largest counties, these data underestimate the problem, according to a new study of data from America’s 20 largest counties. The study reveals an infrastructure of surveillance of families – especially nonwhite families — that is, in the words of the study authors, “pervasive,” “ubiquitous,” and “extremely high.”
Also: Contact with Child Protective Services is pervasive but unequally distributed by race and ethnicity in large US counties: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/30/e2106272118.full.pdf

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