What the prison system is to adults, CPS has become to children a network of control, removal, and profit. This Spotlight exposes the truth behind America’s other incarceration crisis.

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...

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...

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...

Over the last several months, I’ve poured hours — no, days — into researching and understanding where and how the Alabama child protective system, and systems like it across this nation, have gone so...