Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)

A UN committee to end racial discrimination said Congress and the Biden administration should amend or repeal certain child welfare policies.

The American Bar Association has called on legal professionals to come to terms with how the child welfare system’s racist roots continues to harm Black families.

We can help formerly incarcerated women keep their children with holistic legal services and other support, writes Andi Mazingo.

Advocates, representatives and former child welfare officials say it's time to change a 1990s-era federal law that incentivized adoptions.

The "uncooperative mother" has become a racial trope used by well-meaning people who work in the child welfare system, writes Karen Baynes-Dunning.

A bill introduced before Congress would allow states to decide whether to seek the termination of parental rights in child welfare cases.

A bill introduced before Congress would allow states to decide whether to seek the termination of parental rights in child welfare cases.

A campaign announced in March to seek repeal of the Adoption and Safe Families Act has brought in a strategist to lead the effort.

While conversations about statutory reforms in child welfare are important and will hopefully result in meaningful change, questions linger.