Few systems are as critical to a community as child welfare. To an outsider, the child welfare system is also a complex labyrinth of programs that cover children’s safety, abuse and neglect, foster care and adoption as well as supporting and strengthening families. How children fare in that system will have lifelong repercussions across all parts of society.
Neglect and Abuse
“Tell us where the children are.” “I promise you they’re alive.” A Maryland woman is being held at a maximum-security psychiatric hospital after being charged with abduction and neglect of her two toddlers.
After a Hasidic man exposed child abuse in his tight-knight Brooklyn community, he found himself the target of a criminal investigation.
Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota fight to gain custody of their children and grandchlldren after they are taken by state social workers and placed in foster care.