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Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Analyzing flaws in child welfare, like the risky 'better safe than sorry' approach, and exploring systemic reforms.
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When it comes to caps and the power they wield, families deserve a second opinion. In recent years, three states, Texas, Washington, and now Georgia, have written that option into law. The other 47 could think about doing this too.
There's this phrase in child welfare circles, the removal calculus. The authors of that Michigan Law Review paper I
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To survive in the world where bullies reign, our children must carefully cover all traces of vulnerability, erase all signs of caring. No doubt, that is why so many children suppress any feelings of empathy for the victims of bullying.
Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Mate • Hold on to Your Kids
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
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Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
How about Holly? She is a young mom who recently left a comfortable suburban job to teach in an inner-city school. Holly doesn’t just teach students, though; she invests in families with the gospel. She told me about one family she had recently visited—a single mom working full-time while going to school, with five children ages three to fifteen.
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