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The child welfare agency’s response was immediate: Like many states, West Virginia considers failed drug tests to be proof that a child is in danger, which can lead to the child’s removal.
The child welfare system is overloaded with racial disparities that impact Black families, experts say.
African-American children are more likely than white children to be in persistent poverty due to multiple generations of discrimination. [1] When accounting for differences in family structure and income levels, black children still persist in higher poverty rates which is evidence that child poverty is driven by racism. [6]
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Ellen Key publishes Century of the Child, an influential American book about children's rights. 1912 Children's Bureau: The Children's Bureau was formed by the U.S. Congress in response to the White House Conference on Children. For the first time child welfare focused on more than disadvantaged children, and became focused on all children. [16 ...
In response to the death of Elisa Izquierdo, the then-Mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani, instigated an urgent review of the city's child welfare system. [61] This review inspired the creation of the Administration for Children's Services — an agency solely devoted to the issue of child welfare in New York. [6] [n 13]
A pilot project aimed at lowering the rate of medical professionals who overreport Black, Latino and Indigenous families to the child welfare system is launching in Michigan, the American Bar ...
Many children who come to the attention of the child welfare system do so because of situations which are often referred to as child abuse. Abuse typically involves abuse of power, or exercising power for an unintended purpose. [46] [47] This includes willful neglect, knowingly not exercising a power for the purpose for which it was intended ...