NCCPR in Youth Today: Why do child welfare agencies keep demanding poor people raise their kids ‘independently’ when no one else does?

Foster parents get help.

Adoptive parents get help.

Middle-class parents get help.

Rich parents get lots and lots of help.

So why do child protective services agencies demand that poor people prove they can raise kids entirely on their own - or lose them forever?

Read NCCPR's column in Youth Today