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Originally Posted by DapperButch
Interesting. Very. I have never worked in the child welfare system, so I have no sense of this. What studies are you referring to? Percentage of POC versus caucasian who had to take psych evals prior to visitation? Or what do you mean when you say caucasians are given visitation more often? I am not asking for a specific study (of course!)
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I remember here in CA, data compiled from CPS records on court decided visitations and the number of POC either getting supervised visitation or getting kids back as compared to caucasians. This was a few years back and conducted after complaints taken by legal aid agencies trying to see if there were differences based upon race. Economic status was a variable considered as well. There was a statistically significant difference found with whites getting kids returned to them and having supervised visitation sooner and more often. I don't know what kinds of data collection or comparisons have been done recently- I didn't stay in the child welfare public system.
I have no idea if this could be applied to the Powell case at all. I was just thinking about what in the world could have happened in this case and also the shuffling between agencies and systems that might have contributed to just how dangerous he was (and the triggers piling up for him) or non-cordination of information within the system. if I remember correctly, this case also began in one state and ended in another (Utah to washington).
Things always seen to fall into outside observer bias or 20-20 hindsight when these things happen, however. So damn difficult to make sense about how things seemed to fall through the cracks and these kids were put into danger.