July 2026: After Pete Buttigieg’s harrowing interaction with Child Protective Services, Slate publishes Pete Buttigieg Didn’t Have to Let Those CPS Officers In. Here’s what he could have done instead by UFA member Chris Gottlieb.
June 2025: UFA member Chris Gottlieb is quoted in ProPublica’s article New York Bans Anonymous Child Welfare Reports.
February 2025: UFA member Nora McCarthy co-authors Child Welfare Reckons With the Harm of Investigations for The Imprint.
July 2024: UFA member Richard Wexler publishes commentary in the Tennessee Lookout: The Best Way to Reduce Child Abuse Fatalities is to Reduce Poverty.
January 2024: UFA members Josh Gupta-Kagan and Ruth Ann White are quoted in the ProPublica article: When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance.
October 2023: UFA member Andrew Brown is quoted in The Imprint: You Have the Right to Refuse CPS Entry: Texas Launches Miranda-style Warnings to Parents Under Investigation for Child Maltreatment.
March 2023: UFA member April Lee is featured on the At Liberty Podcast: How Mandatory Reporting is Destroying Families.
October 2022: NBC News article Mandatory reporting was supposed to stop severe child abuse. It punishes poor families instead quotes UFA’s April Lee and Kathleen Creamer and features research by Texas Public Policy Foundation.
June 2022: UFA member Will Estrada speaks with the New York Times about the history of the parental rights movement.
September 2021: Why Democrats and Republicans in the Lege Formed a Rare Alliance on Child Welfare by Roxanna Asgarian in Texas Monthly quotes UFA’s Andrew Brown on how a bipartisan coalition came together in Texas to pass reforms to the state’s child protection laws.