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All posts tagged "family separation"
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1.7KNewsFive years in with millions unclaimed, is Family First helping kids and families yet?
The Family First Prevention Services Act aims to keep families together, whenever possible.
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3.2K► ReportsNumber of children separated from their families due to parental substance use has more than doubled
The number of children separated from their families due to parental substance use has more than doubled in the past two decades...
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1.7KNewsGirl Scouts Beyond Bars maintains connections between incarcerated mothers and their children
Organizers say the aim of Girl Scouts Beyond Bars is to build relationships between incarcerated mothers and their children. In doing so,...
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826NewsFamilies separated at border now fear extortion attempts
For the 30-year-old Honduran woman, the worst seemed to be over. She's been reunited with her son who, as a 6-year-old, was...
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3.6KFrom the BureausGroup Seeks to End ICE Collaborations With Local Law Enforcement
Sitting cross-legged on the pavement, his right arm locked into a bright blue painted tire weighed down by cement and blocking the...
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3.4KGuest Opinion EssayCriminalizing Undocumented Youth in Texas and Beyond Is Causing PTSD
As policymakers in Washington wrangle over walls, many youth in communities on our southern border grapple with fear of exclusion in the...
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3.0KGuest Opinion EssayTrump Endangers Immigrant Children, Against Every Child Welfare Principle
President Donald Trump’s immigration policies have squarely targeted the most vulnerable: children. Like most people, I was outraged last summer when I...
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3.5KGuest Opinion EssayTrump Approach to Separating Kids Has Much in Common With Foster System
If there’s one thing that really, really upsets America’s child welfare establishment, it’s pointing out the close resemblance between the Trump administration’s...
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2.8KGuest Opinion Essay‘Opioid Excuse’ for Putting Indiana Kids Into Foster Homes Falls Apart Under Scrutiny
For many years Indiana has been an extreme outlier when it comes to taking children from their families. Year after year, Indiana...
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssayToday’s Immigration Policies Are Going to Affect Child-Serving Systems Tomorrow
On April 11, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum to all federal prosecutors along the southwest border of the United...
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1.6KGuest Opinion EssayExtreme Stress in Childhood Is Toxic to Your DNA
The Conversation The real danger of separating children from parents is not the psychological stress — it’s the biological time bomb. The...
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2.0KGuest Opinion EssayJailing Immigrant Families Is Just Incarceration By Another Name
“See, too, that girl of thirteen, weeping, yes! weeping, as she thinks of the mother from whom she has been torn!” —Frederick...
