'Too many kids have lost parents or grandparents, and been set adrift in a brusque, busy city. If New York doesn’t make things right for our kids, today’s neglect will come back to haunt us,' warns errollouis
Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images A couple months into the pandemic, I was commiserating on the sidewalk with a neighbor shortly after Mr. Gibbs, who lived at the end of our block, died of COVID-19. This was in those scary early weeks, when the streets were nearly empty, ambulance sirens wailed all day and night, and nobody knew what to expect.
“Keeping Track of New York City’s Children,” a new report by the Citizens Committee for Children of New York, calculates that 4,730 New York City kids under 18 lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19 from March 2020 through December 2021. To make matters worse, the public institutions we count on to help raise New York’s kids — our school system and after-school programs, and the Family Court — have all shrunk or slowed down during the pandemic.
For older kids, the administration of Mayor Eric Adams is rolling out a special program to help kids recover from the pandemic. Other institutions have a longer way to go. A report by the New York City Bar Association and the Fund for Modern Courts found that the already overburdened Family Court — which handles 200,000 or so cases every year that include child abuse, child support, orders of protection, visitation rights, custody disputes, juvenile delinquency, domestic violence, and foster care — racked up a huge backlog during the pandemic.
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