Research & Education
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.
November 2024: UFA members Kathleen Creamer, Martin Guggenheim, and Jim Mason appear on the Parental Rights Foundations’ podcast, where they are interviewed by UFA member Michael Ramey, to discuss what to do When CPS is at the Door.
March 2024: UFA member Nora McCarthy’s organization, NYC Family Policy Project, releases No Filter, a report that shows that New York state screens out far fewer hotline calls than most states, contributing to the state’s high investigation rate.
January 2024: UFA member Richard Wexler’s organization NCCPR releases an Issue Paper on The Failure of Mandated Reporting.
September 2023: UFA member Kathleen Creamer participates in a webinar on the history and harm of CAPTA as part of the Repeal CAPTA coalition.
March 2023: UFA member April Lee is featured on the At Liberty Podcast: How Mandatory Reporting is Destroying Families.
October 2023: UFA member Richard Wexler presents It’s Not “Just Poverty” – It’s UNjust Poverty at the Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare.
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.
Policy Advocacy
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 member Kathleen Creamer participates in the Repeal CAPTA Coalition’s Day of Action on Capitol Hill.
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: Parental Rights Foundation, led by UFA member Michael Ramey, partners with LetGrow to pass SB 1367 in Virginia, which amends the definition of abuse and neglect.
February 2023: UFA Members , , NYC Family Policy Project, and submit written testimony to the New York Assembly Committee on Children and Families as it holds hearings on mandated reporting.
March 2022: UFA member Richard Wexler provides testimony to the Maine Legislature on the OPEGA Report on Child Protective Services Investigations, the Judiciary Committee of the Colorado House of Representatives, and the California State Assembly Committee on Public Safety concerning mandatory reporting laws.
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.