It doesn’t feel like protection.It feels like pressure. A knock on the door. A worker standing in your living room.And suddenly, you’re handed a document you didn’t ask for, told to sign without question, and...

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...

In a post shared by a parent in the Family Forward Project, a milestone birthday was met with something far heavier than joy it was met with relief. The post read: “My oldest child turned...

They want you to feel isolated.They want you to believe it’s just a misunderstanding.Just a mistake.Just a bad break. But what if it wasn’t?What if what happened to your family wasn’t a random failure, but...

Moment by Moment, Day by Day Families across Alabama from Houston County to Baldwin, from Limestone to Lowndes are being quietly drained of everything they have, just to keep the hope of reunification alive. This system...

It Was Never About Justice It was never about truth.It was never about safety.It was never about protecting children. It was about feeding the machine. The Machine Needs Bodies Every day, the system looks for new families to...

When you think of CPS, you think of protection. Safety. Somebody looking out for kids when no one else will. But sometimes, the people we trust to protect our children are the very ones leading...

They Didn’t Knock Like They Were There to Help They didn’t ask any questions.They showed up with power not answers. Blue lights.A clipboard.And a lie or maybe a half-truth that was never fully examined. There was no...