Independent journalist writing about child welfare & the law. WE WERE ONCE A FAMILY @fsgbooks. photo by @aaronjayyoung. roxannafaye@gmail.com
Dec 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My latest: Outside of the traditional foster care system exists a shadow system of potentially hundreds of thousands of children removed by CPS to their relatives or family friends—without a court case, monetary support, or due process. theappeal.org/hidden-foster-…
Legal advocates say these arrangements, termed “hidden foster care,” lead to confusion around custody rights, are ripe for coercion of the parent, and leave caregivers without any support in caring for children. theappeal.org/hidden-foster-…
Dec 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Jesus Christ. There’s like ten levels of fucked up here.
It’s a little bit funny though cause we all get so mad at TV portrayals of female journalists and this is almost too on the nose of what a TV depiction of a female journalist would do.
Dec 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This quote and hed is problematic. No kids are born “for” their parents, bio or otherwise. It’s an especially heavy load for a kid who has survived the loss of three of her caretakers in her short life.
It’s great that this child has a loving home. She’s also just at the beginning of a difficult road of understanding herself, her family and her trauma. Hoping for more narratives that center the experience of the ones actually going through it.
Dec 9, 2020 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Gonna do my annual thread of (some of) my work this year. It was a weird year but still managed to get a lot done considering we had Rocco home with us for six months. Anyway here goes and I’ll include $.
My story about Dontay Davis, the brother of 3 of the Hart kids, technically ran last December, but I was surprised when it ran in print on A4 in January with this gorgeous spread. I was really heartened to see how so many people connected with it. $800 washingtonpost.com/national/his-s…
Jun 17, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
I’m still thinking about this harrowing report the court monitors put out yesterday showing Texas’s total failure to implement reforms that a federal judge said were mandatory in order for the state to stop violating these kids’ rights. chronicleofsocialchange.org/child-welfare-…
They identified three deaths of kids in less than a year that could have been prevented. 11 kids have died in Texas’s longterm custody in less than a year!
