In the United States, child welfare reform efforts have dominated three decades of
landscape. With glimmers of systemic promise and innumerable individual success stories …

We are clinicians in busy health centers, and we are seeing the impact of school closures for
in-person learning—including school disengagement, mental health challenges, unhealthy …

Infants and children under age 3 years have the highest risk of dying from child abuse and
neglect. Clinicians treating children must recognize and report child abuse. Barriers to …

Parents with serious mental health (MH) and substance use disorders (SUD) can face
profound challenges caring for their children. MH/SUD treatment can improve outcomes for …

In this paper, I introduce a new term, adoptism, to characterize the unique form (s) of
marginalization to which adopted persons are subjected. Adoptism shows up primarily as …

ABSTRACT The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 has now been actively
implemented in the United States for 24 years and remains largely unchanged from its initial …

This article describes the process engaged by 17 expert scholars in the development of a
set of six consensus recommendations about the normative foundations of pediatric decision …

The legacy of racial injustice is evident in all aspects of our society, including rates of child
abuse and neglect. As communities seek to remedy disparities, activists are demanding that …

Differential response is increasingly used by Child Protective Services (CPS) to assign lower
risk cases of alleged child maltreatment to alternative response (AR). In contrast to …

We are living through a difficult time, with many difficult, yet important conversations within
and outside of our profession. It has been more than two years experiencing COVID-19 and …