Seventeen child welfare experts from places such as Harvard Law School and the Hudson Institute published “What Child Protection is For”, a thoughtful response to the abolish child welfare movement. It was written for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
The AEI has a political agenda, so we are somewhat uneasy about this arrangement.
Perhaps the authors decided to write this piece despite the Institute’s conservative bent because sound research is being overwhelmed by ideologically-formulated practices with no empirical foundation, for example a program that falsely claims to have engaged parents in child protection voluntarily.
Child welfare intellectuals are typically liberal or moderate and publish academic articles, not opinion pieces for center-right think tanks. But if this entity offers an outlet for inconvenient truths that aren’t being presented elsewhere, perhaps making the case in that forum is better than staying silent.
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