What if families impacted by child welfare injustice stood up together, all across the country, and said enough? This article is a call to break the silence, confront the system, and ask whether a country that celebrates freedom is willing to face the families it has torn apart.

This is not just about paperwork. It is about power. Across Alabama, parents are being coerced into signing safety plans under the threat of losing their children, without evidence, without a warrant, and without due process. This is not protection. It is a system weaponized.

*** Watch the full clip here *** Seventeen years after Nancy Schaefer’s warning, families are still fighting to be heard. The system hasn’t changed. It has simply gotten better at hiding. In 2007, State Senator Nancy...

By Families vs. Houston County DHR It started with a message from a grandmother. She didn’t write with rage. She wrote with heartbreak. With trembling hands and the kind of fear only a caregiver truly...

By Staff Writer | Families vs DHR In a small Alabama town, a grandmother stood by her phone, waiting for a call that never came. Her daughter had just been taken into custody, and she...

What if I told you the removal of children from loving homes is being incentivized by federal dollars? This video expose how the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, passed under the Clinton administration,...

They told us foster care was about helping children in crisis. But once we started listening to parents and digging deeper, the truth we uncovered was painful. We didn’t walk away because we don’t care. We walked away because we do.

By Families vs. DHR Editorial Team In courtrooms across America, there exists a belief that has been passed down through generations, codified into oaths, and echoed through marble halls. Judges are seen as the guardians...