{"id":1377541,"date":"2023-12-07T14:34:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T14:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=e56614ef05021342a69e426a027d20bd"},"modified":"2023-12-07T14:34:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T14:34:35","slug":"so-called-child-welfare-tears-families-apart-how-can-we-repair-this-harm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/07\/so-called-child-welfare-tears-families-apart-how-can-we-repair-this-harm-2\/","title":{"rendered":"So-Called \u201cChild Welfare\u201d Tears Families Apart. How Can We Repair This Harm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Yusef Presley was 5, he was removed from his family home and separated from his mom and 8-year-old sister due to allegations of maternal abuse. &ldquo;I still think about that day, still dream about it,&rdquo; he told me. &ldquo;My mom had our best interests&rdquo; at heart, Presley said, &ldquo;but she did not know how to parent. She needed help. She had a lot on her plate and was being abused by a boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/so-called-child-welfare-tears-families-apart-how-can-we-repair-this-harm\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/so-called-child-welfare-tears-families-apart-how-can-we-repair-this-harm\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists are organizing to end punitive family policing policies that unnecessarily separate children from families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8936,71908,71909,34349,4438,57554,30179,4,71910],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377543,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377541\/revisions\/1377543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}