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Sexual Assault By Family Members
Sometimes, to save children’s lives and protect their safety, Child Protective Services (CPS) must remove them from unsafe homes.
The Return
A recent federal court hearing highlighted incidences of children dying in foster care that the plaintiffs and court monitors argued may have been prevented if CPS and Residential Child Care Licensing at the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) had corrected long-standing oversight deficiencies.
Decoding Language and Mental Wellness
Among the state’s largest counties, Travis County has the highest rates of racial disproportionality in the CPS system, although Dallas, El Paso, Harris, and Tarrant counties also have particularly disturbing rates of overrepresentation in the system.
The Orginal: The Removal
Black children stay in Texas foster care two months longer than White children, on average. In Texas foster care, 68 percent of older Black youth have three or more placements — meaning more instability — compared to 63 percent of older White youth.
Pedophilia Erotica
In fact, more than 60 percent of child removals in Texas in 2004 and 2005 involved families with annual incomes of about $10,000 or less.
Globe & Mail Bestseller
Research in Texas suggests that race is a factor pushing Black children deeper into the CPS system, even after controlling for poverty and the CPS’ assessment of individual kids’ risk of abuse and neglect of individual kids.
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Dr. Rachel-Levitch is a parent with passion for protecting parental freedoms and democracy..
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In many cases, solutions must directly target disparities and disproportionality in the CPS system.
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