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| I don't know if you can say "the handwriting is on the wall" for New York City's family policing agency, but this is one of the messages JMacForFamilies projected onto the wall of the fisrt-stop parking place "shelter" where some children are taken when they're torn from their parents in New York City. It was part of a protest last week. |
● Hey, remember when New York City schools and the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, promised that this year they wouldn’t traumatize children and families by sending caseworkers to investigate them on “educational neglect” charges just because they felt it was still unsafe to send them to in-person classes? Chalkbeat checked to see if they were keeping their word. Can you guess what they found?
● Check out the video of Prof. Dorothy Roberts’ lecture on “Black Families Matter: How the U.S. Family Regulation System Punishes Poor People of Color.” By the way, the lecture was co-sponsored by the “Penn Program on Regulation.” I mention this for the benefit of those who insist the system shouldn’t be called a “family regulation system” just because it, you know, regulates families.
● “Family Separation is as American as Mass Incarceration” according to the ACLU of Southern California. They’re part of the #reimaginechildsafety coalition in Los Angeles, and they have a blog post that gives an overview of how the family regulation system harms children in Los Angeles County.
● The murder of a child in Hawaii, allegedly by the foster parents who adopted her has a lot of people seeking answers. Here are some of the questions they need to ask.
● And there’s still another case alleges
horrifying abuse in Florida foster care.
