Dee Wilson’s October 2026 Sounding Board asks whether a foster care-to-prison pipeline exists. The honest answer turns out to be about placement stability, not foster care itself.
Why MN Family Preservation Laws Are Costing Children Lives The rights of the adults in the room now outrank the right of the child to survive the home they were born into. ICWA, the African American Family Preservation Act, and Family First all moved that line in the same direction. Eighty-eight children were killed in…
A draft federal rule would pay married stay-at-home parents about $9,000 a year per child, using money from the fund that helps low-income parents work. Eighty percent of the families using that fund now are single working parents. That rule is one item on a long list, and here is the whole list.
A randomized trial of 4,229 families and Minnesota’s $848 million child protection bill. What we pay after the harm, and what prevention actually costs.
Arizona rebuilt its child welfare agency in 2014 after 6,554 child abuse reports were marked “not investigated,” but new audits, deaths, and lawsuits show the same failure patterns emerging under a different name. This KARA deep dive consolidates Arizona’s own data, fatality reviews, and court records to expose how delays, documentation gaps, group home overreliance, and chronic turnover are still putting children at risk—and what that means for real reform.
The Alaska Children’s Alliance warns that Alaska has “some of the highest rates of child abuse and neglect in the nation,” noting research that 38% of children born in Alaska will be reported to child welfare before age 10 and nearly 1 in 7 will face an allegation of sexual abuse before age 12