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Why I Write: From Family Crisis to Fierce Advocacy

Journalist Kim Richards shares a powerful personal story of how Alabama’s DHR system devastated her family after a teenage mistake turned into a full-blown crisis. A call for truth, reform, and accountability.

Former Foster Parent and Minister Convicted on Multiple Sex Abuse Charges

Former Alabama foster parent and minister Patrick Streeter has been convicted on multiple counts of sexually abusing a foster child in his care between 2018 and 2021. The charges include sodomy, sexual torture, and unlawful sex acts. He now awaits sentencing in Madison County Jail.

Trafficked by the State: The Federal Law That Pays to Take Children

Title IV-E was written to protect children but it’s now the engine behind a state-run system that profits from tearing families apart. This article exposes how federal funding and adoption incentives created a child welfare industry fueled by removal, not reunification. This is not just injustice it’s trafficking by the state.

Sunday Spotlight: A Mother’s Day Without Her Children

When nine months of love are erased in nine minutes of paperwork From the moment of conception, a mother begins building something sacred.Week by week.Heartbeat by heartbeat.Kick by kick. She nurtures the unseen.She protects the unborn.She...

We’ve Gone Silent for the Weekend

As Mother's Day approaches, we’ve chosen to pause. This weekend, our platform will go quiet. Not because there’s nothing to say, but because some moments are too sacred for noise. There are mothers across this nation...

Sunday Spotlight: The Great Deception

How Child Protective Services Masks Power as Protection Across the United States, Child Protective Services agencies operate under the banner of child safety. Their mission statements speak of protection, healing, and justice. Yet beneath the...

When Workers Become the Weapon: The Silent Machinery Behind Family Separation

Behind every courtroom order, every removal notice, and every traumatic knock on a family’s door, there’s often a worker—an individual who has been given the authority to make life-altering decisions. But what happens when...

Know Your Rights #8: You Have the Right to Challenge Unsafe or Inappropriate Placements

When a child is removed from a parent’s custody, the trauma doesn’t end with the removal. It continues through every placement, every transition, and every unsafe or unfit environment they are forced to endure....

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