Why lowering qualifications for CPS workers could harm kids

Miriam Nisenbaum: Why lowering qualifications for CPS workers could harm kids | Dallas Morning News:
Texas is in a dire situation with its child protective services system. It’s grossly under-funded and often locked into crisis mode, with little long-term planning and a lack of focus on true outcomes for children in care.

No simple solution when families meet the law

No simple solution when families meet the law:

CHANGING FAMILIES: In this ten-part series, we examine some major changes in family and relationships, and how that might in turn reshape law, policy and our idea of ourselves.

It has often been said that when Australia’s white Anglo-Saxon founding fathers drafted the Constitution in 1901, they could not have foreseen how family constellations would change over the next century and how family law would (or would not) keep abreast of those changes.

Save the kids: LA County wants foster children with relatives, not group homes

Save the kids: LA County wants foster children with relatives, not group homes - MyNewsLA.com:
The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to back efforts to increase the number of foster children placed with relatives, rather than assigning them to group homes. Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Hilda Solis proposed that staffers come up with a plan to increase foster placements with relatives.

'They are not alone': Grandparents fighting for custody of their grandchildren not unique

'They are not alone': Grandparents fighting for custody of their grandchildren not unique:

A LEADING LAWYER in the area of child and family law has said the case where grandparents lost custody of their grandchild is not unique. Gareth Noble of KOD Lyons practice told TheJournal.ie this issue is arising in the courts on a regular basis.

(Video) Birth Caught On Facebook Live Stream Results In Baby Being Taken By Child Protective Services –

(Video) Birth Caught On Facebook Live Stream Results In Baby Being Taken By Child Protective Services –:

As Sarah Dome gave birth to her baby boy Ngangatulelei HeKelesi, she had no idea that the whole world was watching. The baby’s father, Kali Kanongata caught her having the baby on Facebook’s live stream.

Girl put in care for eight months after social worker error

Girl put in care for eight months after social worker error | Daily Mail Online:

A former nursery school headteacher has told how bungling social workers put her three-year-old daughter into care for eight months after a medical record mix-up.

Bullying The Mother Of The Boy Who Fell Into A Gorilla Enclosure Is The Wrong Move

Bullying The Mother Of The Boy Who Fell Into A Gorilla Enclosure Is The Wrong Move | Romper:

The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden has temporarily shut down its gorilla area, after a tense moment 0n Saturday in which a 4-year-old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure.