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Women across the country are often tested for drugs without consent and punished with government interventions when results are positive. Advocates say “test and report” is the “stop and frisk” of the curtained world of juvenile protection agencies.
In the world of Child Protective Services, it’s never simple when family members step in to care for relatives’ children and keep them out of foster care. Sometimes the process can make a fractured family, broken.
Rigid foster care rules threaten to dissolve family ties when mothers are in prison or residential drug treatment. A new law in New York State takes steps to help these families weather the separation.