ARTICLE TAG

family separation

8/21/2023

Education or Family: The Impossible Choice We Must End

Too many parents have to choose between providing their child with an education or being able to care for them. But there is a better way.

Lack of Communication with Separated Siblings Strains Strong Family Connections

6/27/2023

Lack of Communication with Separated Siblings Strains Strong Family Connections

Lack of communication can contribute to a sense of isolation and disconnection among siblings, writes Joel Swazo.

1/5/2023

No More Excuses. California Must Prioritize Children in Foster Care.

After years of stalled progress on improving support for children and youth in foster care, California simply can’t wait any longer to make foster youth a priority.

Choosing to Move Away from my Father

10/18/2022

Choosing to Move Away from my Father

Having a voice made me feel content and safe for the first time. I realized I was going to be okay, writes Allison Victoria Redd.

Sibling Connections

10/9/2022

Sibling Connections

My greatest difficulty in the foster care system was that I was always separated from my siblings, writes Laticia Aossey.

How Hidden Foster Care Harms Children and Parents of Color

7/7/2022

How Hidden Foster Care Harms Children and Parents of Color

After her own experience as a kinship caregiver, Aubrey Edwards-Luce hopes the Children's Bureau can better support kin caregivers and promote racial justice.

    Advocates and Officials Press Case for Overhauling Key Adoption and Child Welfare Law

    2/21/2022

    Advocates and Officials Press Case for Overhauling Key Adoption and Child Welfare Law

    Advocates, representatives and former child welfare officials say it's time to change a 1990s-era federal law that incentivized adoptions.

    child welfare work celebrated

    8/4/2021

    The Family Justice Gap

    Those in the child welfare system should reflect on our complicity in allowing a system to separate children from their parents without due process.

    The ICWA Law Center staff.

    5/17/2021

    Minneapolis Lawyers Rely on ‘Gold Standard’ Law to Keep Native American Families Together

    To examine the Indian Child Welfare Act and its impact, The Imprint reviewed summaries of 40 cases handled last fall by a leading nonprofit law firm in Minnesota, where Native American children are removed from their parents at a rate unseen elsewhere in the country. The review revealed that the federal law has a clear benefit for the children it is designed to protect — and without it, those rights would be greatly diminished.