The Connection Between Family Separations at the Border and Those Closer to Home

Today's new Reason.column by Lenore Skenazy's highlights "Cassie" case (the family pictured on my home page— a wonderful family that should never have been separated). It also features our work on behalf of domestic violence victim Rochelle Vermeulen, and it draws the powerful connection between family separation at the border and family separations throughout the country carried out by child protective services.  

https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/21/cps-family-separation-immigration   

New Article in Washington Times Highlights Work to Stop State Harrassment of Families

The Washington Times today (June 6, 2018) has a terrific article focusing on our efforts to narrow neglect allegations and stop labeling reasonable parents as  child neglectors.  It talks about our efforts to change child welfare laws and practices. The article doesn't explain that it is mostly poor and minority families who get clobbered with amorphous neglect findings,  but these law and policy changes will help everyone, including the real victims of abuse. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/5/free-range-parents-want-more-freedom-kids/