NCCPR Child Welfare Blog: Shedding light on foster care abuses

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog: Shedding light on foster care abuses: "A new law review article provides more evidence that “sunshine is good for children”

In a 2009 post to this Blog, I wrote about how a tiny newspaper in a small town in Tennessee exposed an injustice:

In 2005, the Lebanon (Tenn.) Democrat, revealed that, at least twice, a local judge ordered Mexican mothers to learn English – or lose their children forever. (Access to the story may require free registration on the newspaper's website.) In one case the child still lived with the mother, in the other the child was in foster care. In both cases, the mothers spoke an indigenous language rather than Spanish."