Are child-welfare investigations traumatic for families? How should we weigh that trauma against learning if children are in danger and ensuring parents change their behavior?
New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services has limited official investigations and diverted more cases into a program offering parents “support” — but doesn’t require them to take it.
The upshot: children left in unsafe homes, not to mention many gruesome child fatalities.
The push to redirect cases away from investigation and enforcement presumes families — and children themselves — suffer from these intrusions into their lives.
But a new study calls that premise into question.
Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post
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Rafael Mangual is the Nick Ohnell Fellow and head of research for the Policing and Public Safety Initiative at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He is also the author of Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most. Naomi Schaefer Riley is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum.
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