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Overturning oppression in the US child welfare system

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Professor Lisa Merkel-Holguin has detailed a number of oppressive and prejudiced stages within the American child welfare system that maintains bias towards Black, Indigenous and other ethnic minoritised groups, as well as low-income families.

In the US there’s a growing call from academics and advocates with significant experience in the country’s child welfare system for fundamental reform. Professors Lisa Merkel-Holguin and Ida Drury, colleagues from the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect at the University of Colorado, and a national advocate, have catalogued multiple stages within the current […]

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