Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

My son’s violent illness humbled my sense of control and transformed my understanding of what it means to parent.

The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.

Freedom means a world where how I parent is simply mundane rather than overburdened with meaning. 

A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.

Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as being threats to child welfare. “Don’t Say Gay” laws are the latest in a long history dating back to medieval attacks on Jews.

“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents' rights” before the interests of children.

The system's roots aren't in rescuing children, but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.

Laws controlling what schools teach about race and gender show an awareness that classrooms are sites of nation-building. During the Cold War, El Paso public schools knew this too when they taught the children of former Nazis how to be white Americans.