• Join us in promoting balanced laws that protect children without unjustly separating families over poverty or misunderstandings. Advocating for Fair and Respectful Child Welfare Policies Don’t Call It Neglect is a movement to challenge overly broad child neglect laws and prevent families from being unnecessarily separated because of poverty, parenting differences, or misunderstandings of childhood independence. The organization advocates for policies that protect children while respecting family autonomy, supporting parents, and allowing children the freedom to learn, grow, and develop safely in the United States.

    Advocating for Family Integrity

    A national educational initiative dedicated to supporting family integrity and protecting children from unnessarry, traumatic separation.

    Through nonpartisan research, legal analysis, and public education, we examine how overbroad child negelect standards mislabel ordinary parenting and misdirect vital child protection resources.

  • 7.7 Million

    Children involved in screened reports in FY 2024

    530,622

    Children identified as maltreatment victims in FY 2024

    $45.6 Billion

    Estimated child welfare system cost

  • Join us in promoting balanced laws that protect children without unjustly separating families over poverty or misunderstandings. Advocating for Fair and Respectful Child Welfare Policies Don’t Call It Neglect is a movement to challenge overly broad child neglect laws and prevent families from being unnecessarily separated because of poverty, parenting differences, or misunderstandings of childhood independence. The organization advocates for policies that protect children while respecting family autonomy, supporting parents, and allowing children the freedom to learn, grow, and develop safely in the United States.

    "When child protection systems conflate the struggles of poverty or ordinary parental choices with maltreatment, families suffer unncessary trauma and critical resources are diverted away from children who truly face imminent dange." .

    - The Honorable Janet D. Houser

    Superior Court of Illinois (Ret.)

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