Roxanna Asgarian is a Dallas-based investigative journalist who writes about the legal system and child welfare. She’s the author of We Were Once A Family: Love, Death, and Child Removal in America.
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El sistema de bienestar infantil pone a los niños en riesgo. ¿Es hora de abolirlo?
Durante décadas, los reformadores han intentado arreglar nuestro fallido sistema de servicios de protección infantil. ¿Abolirlo es una idea cuyo momento ha llegado?
Roxanna Asgarian
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The Case for Child Welfare Abolition
For decades, reformers have tried to fix our broken child protective services system. Is abolishing it an idea whose time has come?
Roxanna Asgarian
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
For more information about the National Writers Union, visit nwu.org.
Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.