Alan Dettlaff
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first heard Jul 2026
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Moynihan even specifically said in his report, called on white people to intervene, that the tangle of pathology would spread
if white people didn't do something about it.
So that's where white saviorism comes from.
And that's built into the policies, the structure of child welfare.
It's part of mandatory reporting laws.
It's part of built into the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which expedites adoptions for children who are in foster care for a certain amount of time.
What some people don't understand is that it's not really about who's in the workforce, because the workforce in many places, particularly in urban areas, has a very large black proportion of caseworkers.
But it doesn't really matter who the decision makers are.
If they're implementing the policies of the agency, they're going to be doing actions that disproportionately affect black children.
It's not about individual racism.
Yeah, I think that's an important point to make about many child welfare policies, that they sound good on paper.
When you present the high level details to an average person, that sounds like a perfectly rational policy that is needed to protect children, like mandatory reporting.
Who would be against mandatory reporting?
Of course, if children are being harmed, that should be reported.
It makes sense.
The Adoption and Safe Families Act says that children who have been in foster care for 15 of the last 22 months need to achieve permanency, need to get to some type of permanent outcome.
So either termination of parental rights or reunification.
Most cases, when it gets to that 15-month period, those cases go forward with termination of parental rights so that those children can be adopted because it's usually ruled out by that point that they cannot be reunified or they would have been by the 15th.
That's not what I've seen and experienced, no.
On paper, there's a strong mandate for reunification.
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