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Feature

Doctors Drug Test Black and Poor Families at Higher Rates, Risking Family Separation

Elizabeth Brico
Feature

Amy Coney Barrett Could Determine LGBTQ People’s Access to Adoption

Elizabeth Brico
Feature

Coronavirus Could Cost Parents Custody of Kids in Foster Care

Elizabeth Brico
Mother cradling child with medical equipment
Feature

North Carolina Wants To Penalize Prenatal Substance Exposure

Elizabeth Brico
parent and three children
Analysis

How an Algorithm Meant to Help Parents Could Target Poor Families Instead

Elizabeth Brico
two children playing
First Person

In the Child Welfare System, Somebody’s Always Watching You

Elizabeth Brico
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Feature

State Laws Can Punish Parents Living in Abusive Households

Elizabeth Brico
Parent and child in swing
Analysis

The Government Spends 10 Times More on Foster Care and Adoption Than Reuniting Families

Elizabeth Brico
First Person

How Child Protective Services Can Trap the Parents They’re Supposed to Help

Elizabeth Brico
Feature

Administration-Sanctioned Discrimination Is Keeping Foster Kids Out of Loving Homes

Megan Martin
Feature

Biased Algorithms Are Determining Whether Poor Parents Get to Keep Their Kids

Elizabeth Brico
First Person

Poverty Isn’t Neglect, But the State Took My Children Anyway

Elizabeth Brico

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