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2 months ago | 
wsj.com | Naomi Schaefer Riley |Naomi Riley
“We were having Easter dinner,” Faith Preston tells the writer Andrea Dunlop. Faith’s little cousin Alyssa “was walking around to the tables where everybody was eating and she just wanted food.” Something had to be done.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Naomi Riley
The Administration on Children, Youth and Families allows relatives of a child to become foster parents without having to meet the same standards required for non-relatives. Source link
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
city-journal.org | Rebecca Jones Gaston |Naomi Riley
“The hope and intention is that we’re creating some equity around how we’re supporting family members caring for children that are in foster care.” That’s how Rebecca Jones Gaston, commissioner for the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), described one of her agency’s new rules to Timein 2023.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Naomi Riley |Parul Patel |Ana Gossweiler |Harika Chowdary
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Charlotte Allen |Russell Warne |Aurele Aaron Tobelem |Naomi Riley
For all its decorative asides about predatory male sexuality, ‘The Substance’ is most coherently understood as a morality tale about the folly of feminist illusions. Keep Reading Misinformation: A Flawed Concept “Believe those who seek the truth,” André Gide once wrote, “doubt those who find it.” The same can be said of falsehoods.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
aei.org | Naomi Riley
“It breaks our heart any time a child is abused, any time a child is harmed,” Mayor Eric Adams said after learning about the death of 4-year-old Jahmeik Modlin, who was found in a Harlem apartment, malnourished and suffering from hypothermia, over the weekend. Jahmeik is the sixth child to die of maltreatment in the city in the last three months.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
iwf.org | McKenzie Holmes |Naomi Riley
What to make of the puzzling data coming from colleges regarding the racial makeup of this fall’s freshman class? It appears that last year’s Supreme Court decision banning the use of race in college admissions has led to different responses from leading institutions. Why would the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report a drop in the share of black students from 15% to 5% while the numbers at the University of North Carolina remained stable?
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
aei.org | Naomi Riley
“The American Dream is not my story,” writes Jessica Hoppe. If anything, she writes in her new memoir First in the Family, the idea of the American dream has held her back. Hoppe describes her parents’ journey from Honduras and Ecuador to the United States, her family’s journey from dysfunction to stability and her own journey from addiction to sobriety. The memoir’s central claim is that all of these journeys are related and that they must all be seen through the lens of racism and colonialism.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
manhattan.institute | James Piereson |Naomi Riley
What to make of the puzzling data coming from colleges regarding the racial makeup of this fall’s freshman class? It appears that last year’s Supreme Court decision banning the use of race in college admissions has led to different responses from leading institutions. Why would the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report a drop in the share of black students from 15% to 5% while the numbers at the University of North Carolina remained stable?
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Naomi Riley
Hurt people hurt people. Though this phrase is sometimes invoked to excuse bad behavior, there’s an argument that it should be guiding public policy. A devastating article from Pro Publica last week tells the story of two Wisconsin teens, Maylia and Jack. At the age of 15, Maylia Sotelo was charged with homicide — as an adult — for providing fentanyl to Jack McDonough, who died from it. Police had been tracking Maylia for months before she sold the fatal dose to Jack.
