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Josh Gupta-Kagan

Josh Gupta-Kagan is a clinical professor of law at Columbia Law School

The Star Wars CPS Storyline: Beware The Well-Intentioned Family Separator

9/16/2024

The Star Wars CPS Storyline: Beware the Well-Intentioned Family Separator

By Josh Gupta-Kagan Strangers walk into a family home, expressing concern about the well-being of two children living there. The parent would like the strangers to leave, but knows she has no choice — they wield tremendous power.

The Star Wars CPS Storyline: Beware The Well-Intentioned Family Separator

8/19/2024

Medicaid Funds Kinship Care without Separating Families. So Should CPS.

By Josh Gupta-Kagan Money impacts relationships. And when the money involved is a foster care subsidy to kinship caregivers, it can drive a wedge in relationships between parents and kinship caregivers that should be strengthened, not strained.

The Star Wars CPS Storyline: Beware The Well-Intentioned Family Separator

12/21/2020

How the Biden Administration Can Address Hidden Foster Care

By Josh Gupta-Kagan The Biden administration will inherit a foster care system in which states report removing more than 200,000 children from their families every year.  

Joshua Gupta-Kagan, University of South Carolina School of Law
The real number is far higher, thanks to a practice that I call “hidden foster care.”