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Diane Redleaf

Diane Redleaf is the founding co-chair of United Family Advocates, a bipartisan coalition of advocates for families who facing intervention by the child welfare system affecting their rights to raise their children in their own homes and communities.

6/12/2023

How America’s Neglect Laws Jeopardize Healthy Child Development

Many U.S. neglect laws run counter to the research showing kids are able to explore independence at younger ages, authors argue

5/16/2022

The Challenge of Changing America’s Amorphous, Limitless Neglect Laws

Diane Redleaf reviews some promising developments for those interested in sharpening the definition of neglect in child welfare law

12/21/2020

Biden’s Child Welfare Focus Should Be Removing Poverty from Neglect

By Diane Redleaf

Diane Redleaf, co-founder, United Family Advocates. Photo courtesy of Redleaf

The incoming Biden administration may already be inundated with learned policy papers and dense reports about how to fix the child welfare system.