Press Releases
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UFA Members in the News
Protecting Family Autonomy
July 2026: 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.
July 2026: In a Bridge Michigan piece, UFA member Richard Wexler asks: Can Michigan learn the right lessons from two child welfare cases?
June 2025: UFA member Chris Gottlieb is quoted in ProPublica’s article New York Bans Anonymous Child Welfare Reports.
Promoting Family Integrity
July 2026: UFA member Viviana Bonilla Lopez publishes in The 74, highlighting bipartisan agreement on needed child welfare system reforms.
June 2025: UFA member Richard Wexler publishes an op-ed in the Albuquerque Journal: It’s Wrong to Assume Removing Children from Homes is Always in Their Best Interest.
July 2024: The New York Times reports on a case that UFA member Chris Gottlieb’s Family Defense Clinic at NYU is co-counsel on, which received bipartisan support.
Preserving Family Ties
December 2024: UFA member Shrounda Selivanoff is interviewed in a two-part episode of Matt Anderson’s Proximity Process Podcast on the harms of terminating parental rights.
February 2024: UFA member Kathleen Creamer is interviewed on Matt Anderson’s Proximity Process Podcast about the harms of ASFA.
December 2022: NBC News and ProPublica publish an investigation on Termination of Parental Rights, which includes a quote from UFA member Martin Guggenheim.
