ASFA's passage has wrought untold damage on Black families. 25 years later it needs to be repealed.
concluded, Black children experience “exceptionally high rates” of traumatic child welfare interventions, including termination of their parents’ rights.
Chicago, where virtually all the children in foster care were Black, felt its immediate impact: According to the Chicago Reporter, by 1999, just two short years after ASFA’s enactment, “terminations grew from 958 to 3,743 in that period, meaning that three out of every five cases ended with parents losing custody.”to put Black families at risk of legal demolition.
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