Families Over Dispositions

08/05/2023 57 min
Families Over Dispositions

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A recent law journal article lays out three arguments against the rate at which many child welfare systems terminate parental rights. “The Ties That Bind” lays out data, outcomes and legal reasoning to support that idea. We are joined this week by the co-authors of this paper: Christopher Church, a pro-bono attorney for the CHAMPS Clinic at the University of South Carolina School of Law and a co-director for the Appeal for Youth Clinic at Emory Law in Atlanta, and Vivek Sankaran, who directs the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and Child Welfare Appellate Clinics at the University of Michigan. Reading RoomComing Soon: SafeCamp Audio, the forthcoming podcast network from Fostering Media Connections, which will feature terrific audio projects on child welfare, youth justice and more. Click here to join the SafeCamp newsletter!The Ties that Bind Us: An Empirical, Clinical, and Constitutional Argument Against Terminating Parental Rightshttps://bit.ly/3nB2BVVFamily Court ReviewSpecial Issue: Race, Racism and Child Welfare https://bit.ly/42vXXY3

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