Dr. Anu Partap

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Nobody Should Believe Me · Inside the Child Welfare System with Dr. Anu Partap Part 1 · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

And it led to a massive response from the state and from the courts.

It was taken the way that it needed to be taken very seriously.

They died while their cases were engaged in the foster care system.

So the families had had their children placed in foster care.

And so a foster care case is really the entire family, right?

It's the family of origin, all the children involved in that home, the children who are still in their home, the children who are placed in somebody else's care, all the way until the children go back home, the reunification.

So we had two infants in separate cases that

died during the process of reunification from foster care.

And the cases were still open at the time.

And so I think, but I say that because when you hear good outcomes, we have to picture how much it takes for everyone who's on the ground working with families.

So one of the first stories I thought of was like, I had a

And HIPAA is very necessary privacy.

So I will change, obviously, the details of the stories.

But young children were seriously affected with their health and safety, were extremely underweight for their ages.

and entered care to a family who was really open for adoption.

Now, when you're open for adoption, there's still a long road between fostering children who enter your home until you can go into adoption.

But the truth is, in this case, everyone was so upset about the condition of these kiddos.

that there was sort of an assumption early on that there's no way we would send these kids back, right?

And we don't make those decisions in pediatrics.

All we're there to do is support the recovery and the ongoing growth and this is their childhood.

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