Category: What I’m Reading
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OPPAGA’s Report on the GAL Program is Not Good
The Legislative Auditor says the GAL Program doesn’t keep good enough records to prove its worth. Any other organization would be fired.
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A starter reading list on how child welfare policies harm Black people, families, and communities
The child welfare system has nothing to say about anti-Black state violence because the child removal system engages in it daily.
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We don’t know enough about peer violence in foster homes
An article this month in Child & Family Social Work looks at the scant amount of research on peer violence in foster homes. Whilst evidence on peer abuse in residential settings is limited even less is known regarding peer abuse in foster care. Although no specific research has been undertaken, work by some (e.g. Farmer…
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Amplifying Ferguson and Race in Child Welfare
One lesson from Ferguson for those of us who talk and write for a living is that now is (always) the time to amplify voices that normally are silenced. For those of us who work in child welfare, another lesson is that the children we work with have a social, historical, and political identity that is…
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ICYMI: John Oliver on the American prison system — racist, stupid, and nothing but a business
This segment was serendipitous timing for the two incarceration opinions that I wrote about earlier this week. Watch it and then argue that a TPR ground based on length of incarceration should exist at all. I lost my legal innocence in law school on the day I learned that there is a private prison industry, that it has…
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Four easy ways to make Florida’s tuition waiver better
Florida’s Children First has put out this great white paper on Florida’s Tuition Exemption (colloquially the “tuition waiver”), looking closely at how it works, and ways it could definitely work better.
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Termination of Non-citizen Parents’ Rights
Stacy Byrd, an outstanding student of our clinic, has this Note in the current issue of the University of Miami Law Review: Learning from the Past: Why Termination of a Non-citizen Parent’s Rights Should Not Be Based on the Child’s Best Interests.
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Addressing the Harm of Silence and Assumptions of Mutability
The article’s full title is Addressing the Harm of Silence and Assumptions of Mutability: Implementing effective non-discrimination policies for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth in foster care, found here at SSRN. This quote caught me: Children walk the streets today because they were kicked out of a home that saw their struggle as a moral…