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Child Welfare Monitor

@childwelmonitor

Advocating for a child-friendly child welfare policy nationwide.

 Washington, DC
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Another preventable child neglect death in DC open.substack.com/pub/childw…
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Protecting new babies born to maltreaters: Benji's law is not enough. childwelfaremonitor.org/2026… via @childwelmonitor

Protecting new babies born to maltreaters: Benji’s law is not enough.

by Marie Cohen Photo by Daniel Duarte on Pexels.com On December 16, 2025, police were dispatched to a residence in Nampa, Idaho and found a 12-day-old infant named Benji dead in a filthy house with…

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Colorado’s “decline in child abuse” is actually a decline in child protection childwelfaremonitor.org/2026… via @childwelmonitor
Colorado’s “decline in child abuse” is actually a decline in child protection

Colorado’s “decline in child abuse” is actually a decline in child protection

by Marie Cohen I could not help being skeptical when I read the headline, “Colorado’s child abuse and neglect cases drop 40% in 4 years.”  Major changes in social phenomena just don’t happen t…

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Annual checkes needed for adoption and guardianship subsidies. childwelfaremonitor.org/2026…
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Prioritizing racial equity, saying neglect is “just poverty,” underestimating the risks to children of parent drug addiction & hiding information from the public are all problems ACS has had for years. Rebecca Jones Gaston will only exacerbate them. @AEI nypost.com/2026/04/07/opinio…
Mamdani's ACS choice puts 'racial equity' above keeping kids safe and alive

Mamdani's ACS choice puts 'racial equity' above keeping kids safe and alive

Rebecca Jones Gaston served as the leader of child welfare agencies in Oregon and Maryland, as well as the head of the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families during the Biden admin.

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Please Stop Brainwashing Lawyers and Undermining Child Protection: A Letter to the National Association of Counsel for Children aei.org/articles/please-stop… @AEI @Rafa_Mangual @buttonslives

Please Stop Brainwashing Lawyers and Undermining Child Protection: A Letter to the National...

This letter is published as a joint statement by select members of the Child Welfare Innovation Working Group, led by Naomi Schaefer Riley. April 2, 2026Kim DvorchakCEO, National Association of...

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Surprise, surprise! Family First has not reduced the use of congregate care! childwelfaremonitor.org/2026… via @childwelmonitor
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To report or not to report?: Misinformation from The Ethicist at The New York Times childwelfaremonitor.org/2026… via @childwelmonitor
To report or not to report?: Misinformation from The Ethicist at The New York Times

To report or not to report?: Misinformation from The Ethicist at The New York Times

by Marie Cohen I Saw a Child Who Seemed Neglected. Should I Have Done Something? was the title of a column from Kwame Anthony Appiah, who writes the “Ethicist” Column for the New York T…

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Trial delayed once again in 2022 homicide of 2-year-old Mars Jones. Who will speak for #JusticeforMarsJones? open.substack.com/pub/childw…
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The Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse: Fatally flawed like the law that created it childwelfaremonitor.org/2026… via @childwelmonitor
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How ‘Harm Reduction’ Fails Families imprintnews.org/opinion/how-…
How ‘Harm Reduction’ Fails Families

How ‘Harm Reduction’ Fails Families

Strategies to reduce harm to adults who use drugs might not safeguard children who may be endangered by parental substance use.

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Child Maltreatment 2024: Did abuse and neglect really decline? childwelfaremonitor.org/2026… via @childwelmonitor
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Child Maltreatment 2024: Clear Evidence that Federal Trend Data Cannot be Trusted childwelfaremonitor.org/2026… via @childwelmonitor
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@_DanielleJBrown you might be interested to see how Maryland's posting of accurate fatality data for 2024 without correcting their submissions for prior years (though they say they did) helped create an artificial decrease in the national total of child fatalities for 2024
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How did peer reviewers let this one get by? A flawed study of foster care removals and child maltreatment mortality childwelfaremonitor.org/2026… via @childwelmonitor
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It's been a year since I wrote about this tragic case. aei.org/op-eds/racine-case-t…
Racine Case Tragically Exposes Gaps in Wisconsin's Protection of Kids from Abuse

Racine Case Tragically Exposes Gaps in Wisconsin's Protection of Kids from Abuse

In February 2021, residents of Racine learned that 17-year-old Shavale J. Powell was facing homicide charges in the death of his 1-month-old son. The child suffered blunt force trauma to the head,...

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A Home for Every Child: an inadequate framework for assessing state child welfare programs childwelfaremonitor.org/2026…
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Here are my recommendations for charitable contributions to prevent abuse and neglect and protect children when it happens.childwelfaremonitor.org/2025…
Charitable contributions to prevent abuse and neglect and protect children when it happens

Charitable contributions to prevent abuse and neglect and protect children when it happens

by Marie Cohen It’s the time of year when many commentators are recommending charities to which their readers can contribute. So I thought it might be useful to recommend some nonprofits whos…

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Child maltreatment deaths raise questions about Michigan's funding priorities childwelfaremonitor.org/2025… via @childwelmonitor @PutnamHornstein
Child maltreatment deaths raise questions about Michigan’s funding priorities

Child maltreatment deaths raise questions about Michigan’s funding priorities

Chayce Allen: The Detroit News by Sarah Font (Washington University in St. Louis) and Emily Putnam-Hornstein (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) I am honored to publish this post by two o…

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MA Child Advocate@MAChildAdvocate10 Dec 2025
Today, the OCA is releasing details of our investigation into the death of A’zella Ortiz, a four-year-old girl from Worcester, and new recommendations for changes to DCF policy and practice. 1/11
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