The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform works to change America's approach to #childabuse, #childwelfare, #fostercare Also @nccpr.bsky.social
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Joined June 2009
- Tweets11.9K
- Following202
- Followers3.1K
- Likes214
Huge national study finds no link between #fostercare entries and #childabuse deaths – and in LA both have declined sharply since 2020. Maybe the best way to save children’s lives is to cut short all that needless #fostercare. nccprblog.org/2026/11/some-r…
NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: From 2015-2025 in LA County: Number of children known to be in #fostercare dropped dramatically – and so did #childabuse deaths – including deaths of children “known to the system” nccprblog.org/2026/11/some-r…
[1/4] NCCPR #childwelfare Blog: In Los Angeles County, from 2015 through 2025: The number of children known trapped in #foster care on any given day dropped dramatically:
[3/4] And child abuse fatalities, including deaths of children “known to the system,” ALSO dropped dramatically:
[4/4] So maybe the best way to save children’s lives is to cut short all that needless #fostercare. Or maybe we should simply stop pretending we can measure system performance by fatality numbers, no matter what those numbers show in one community. nccprblog.org/2026/11/some-r…
What would #fostercare-at-all-costs crowd say if LA’s declining foster care #s were accompanied by increases in #childabuse deaths? Yes, exactly. But when such deaths plummet as foster care goes down, they’d rather you not know. So we’ll have to tell you: nccprblog.org/2026/11/some-r…
ICYMI: If drug co. experimented on millions of children, disproportionately nonwhite, without informed consent, found they didn’t know if the drug worked, & just kept on doing it, it would be a crime. In #childwelfare it’s just #fostercare as usual youthtoday.org/2026/10/massi…
NCCPR retweeted
Strong families and safe children require solutions that work at the community level.
Today’s reminder: In #childwelfare the horror stories go in ALL directions: foxbaltimore.com/news/local/… #childabuse #fostercare
Our weekly round-up of #familypreservation journalism and commentary: nccprblog.org/2026/10/nccpr-… #childabuse #fostercare #childwelfare
She’s spent decades defending #fostercare Yet she also says “we don’t know whether it’s a powerful intervention toward the positive or a powerful intervention toward the negative.” Actually, we do know: The evidence for negative keeps pilinig up. youthtoday.org/2026/10/massi…
If drug company experimented on millions of children, disproportionately nonwhite of course, without informed consent, found they didn’t know if the drug worked, & just kept on doing it, it would be a crime. In #childwelfare it’s just #fostercare as usual youthtoday.org/2026/10/massi…
She’s spent decades defending #fostercare but now says “we don’t know whether it’s a powerful intervention toward the positive or ... negative.” But hey, they’re just poor kids, disproportionately nonwhite so it’s always OK to experiment on them, right? youthtoday.org/2026/10/massi…
She’s spent decades defending use of #fostercare Yet she also says “we don’t know whether it’s a powerful intervention toward the positive or a powerful intervention toward the negative.” youthtoday.org/2026/10/massi… #childwelfare #childabuse
NCCPR in Youth Today: “A massive human experiment without informed consent”:
Prominent researcher and foster care defender says we don’t know if #fostercare does good or harm. So why are we still running the experiment?” youthtoday.org/2026/10/massi… #childwelfare #childabuse
ICYMI: NCCPR on “The F Word” podcast from @comfortcases on high rates of abuse in #fostercare, mountain of evidence documenting inherent harm to children when torn from their homes, and the perverse $ incentives that oil the #childwelfare removal machine youtu.be/1SwiK6UpVdQ?si=hGF3…
ICYMU: NCCPR in @RTDNEWS: Horror stories used to expand #childwelfare surveillance state “are no more representative of typical cases than stories about “migrant crime” are representative of the typical behavior of immigrants.” richmond.com/opinion/column/… #fostercare #childabuse
ICYMI: New Mexico child confiscated at birth because of Mom’s drug use, only to die in #fostercare allegedly at hands of #fostercare parent. It’s tough for some NM media when reality contradicts their “master narrative” nccprblog.org/2026/10/was-sk…
NCCPR on “The F Word” podcast from @comfortcases: How the #childwelfare system really works: A look at perverse financial incentives and much more: youtu.be/1SwiK6UpVdQ?si=hGF3… #fostercare #childabuse