Resources

Mandatory Reporting Was Supposed to Stop Severe Child Abuse. It Punishes Poor Families Instead.

ProPublica

CAPTA Law Codifies Everything Wrong With How We ‘Fight’ Child Abuse

Youth Today

New York Lawyers Acknowledge Child Welfare’s Harsh Impact on Black Families, Call for Changes

The Imprint

More Mandatory Reporting Won't Keep Children Safe From Predators

The Washington Post

Racial Discrimination in Child Welfare Is a Human Rights Violation—Let’s Talk About It That Way

American Bar Association

A Call for Shared Humanity Means Repealing Mandatory Reporting Laws

Center for the Study of Social Policy

Time Doesn’t Heal All Wounds: A Call to End Mandated Reporting Laws

Columbia Social Work Review

Refusing to be Complicit in our Prison Nation: Teachers Rethinking Mandated Reporting

Radical Teacher

Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System: Why Do They Exist, and What Can Be Done to Address Them?

ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Mandated Supporting for Survivors

Virginia Journal of Social Policy & The Law

Help Not Hotlines: Replacing Mandated Reporting for Neglect With a New Framework for Support

Family Integrity and Justice Journal

The Impact of Mandatory Reporting Laws on Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Intersectionality, Help-Seeking and the Need for Change

Journal of Family Violence

Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way

Mical Raz

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families — and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

Dorothy Roberts

Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System

Alan Dettlaff

Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare

Dorothy Roberts