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Alabama Childcare Funding Freeze Leaves About 3,000 Families Waiting
About 3,000 Alabama families are on a childcare waitlist after a funding freeze that began in May 2026, and Huntsville nonprofits are stepping in.
Know Your Rights
Alabama’s New Mandatory Reporting Law: More Reports, Less Room for Families to Be Heard
Act 2026-375, effective Oct 1, 2026, widens mandatory reporting in Alabama. More reports, faster, on less direct knowledge, and why families need their own record.
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What If We All Stood Up? A Call for Courage from the Families You Don’t See
What if families impacted by child welfare injustice stood up together, all across the country, and said enough? This article is a call to break the silence, confront the system, and ask whether a country that celebrates freedom is willing to face the families it has torn apart.
Sunday Spotlight
State Sanctioned Terror: The Hidden War on American Families
This is not just about paperwork. It is about power. Across Alabama, parents are being coerced into signing safety plans under the threat of losing their children, without evidence, without a warrant, and without due process. This is not protection. It is a system weaponized.
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Opinion | Almost Twenty Years Later, Nothing Has Changed
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Seventeen years after Nancy Schaefer’s warning, families are still fighting to be heard. The system hasn’t changed. It has simply gotten better at hiding.
In 2007, State Senator Nancy...
Testimonials
Stripped of Authority: The Crisis No One Wants to Talk About
By Families vs. Houston County DHR
It started with a message from a grandmother. She didn’t write with rage. She wrote with heartbreak.
With trembling hands and the kind of fear only a caregiver truly...
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When Blood Is Not Enough: The Silent Crisis of Kinship Being Bypassed
By Staff Writer | Families vs DHR
In a small Alabama town, a grandmother stood by her phone, waiting for a call that never came. Her daughter had just been taken into custody, and she...
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Child Trafficking in America: How Federal Funding Fuels Family Destruction
What if I told you the removal of children from loving homes is being incentivized by federal dollars?
This video expose how the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, passed under the Clinton administration,...