This article shines light on a recent 174-page report by the Movement for Family Power, the Drug Policy Alliance and New York University’s Family Defense Clinic that features the "anguished accounts of [women] being penalized [by the child welfare system] shortly after giving birth." According to the article, the report highlights the child welfare system's "vast and unparalleled government powers" and its "'wide latitude to surveil and control families,' and remove children — particularly those from low-income Black, Latino and American Indian communities." The article describes how the report's authors are "seeking to seize this historic moment of change and unrest in the nation to broaden the public’s awareness of foster care – a system they think needs abolishing, not simply reforming."
