Family Separation

Judge Issues Record Sanctions After CPS Lies to Remove Children

A Texas judge has issued what attorneys call the largest sanction ever imposed against Child Protective Services after finding that caseworkers lied in order to remove two children from their parents. According to original reporting...

Justice for Baby Kai: Mississippi CPS Under Fire After Infant’s Death in State Custody

It is being reported that a seven-month-old baby, known publicly as Baby Kai, has died while under the care of Mississippi Child Protective Services (CPS). The child’s death has ignited public outrage and renewed...

The Price of a Child: How Alabama DHR Turned Family Separation into a Business

There are moments in this fight when the truth no longer hides behind fine print. Last week, Baldwin County attorney and minister Yancey Burnett stood before the Baldwin County Commission and said what so...

🖤 Black Out for Thanksgiving: The Day We Refuse to Pretend

🖤 Join the Black Out for Thanksgiving Movement 🖤 Sign Up Here Stand with families across the country by joining the national blackout this Thanksgiving. Sign up above...

When One Voice Becomes an Army: The Power of Us

There is a moment in every story when silence breaks. It does not happen in a courtroom or a press release. It happens in the quiet decision of one person who finally says, “I...

The Cost Is Too Great: Alabama’s Silent Crisis Inside the DHR System

There is a quiet kind of breaking that happens when a child is taken from home. It does not make headlines or courtroom transcripts, but it leaves echoes in every room that family once...

Leslie Kelly: The Director Behind Houston County DHR’s Culture of Chaos

By Families vs DHR Staff Published September 2025 For nearly three decades, Leslie Kelly has been embedded in the child welfare system. According to an article in the Dothan Eagle, she has held multiple positions within...

Alabama’s Houston County DHR: Building on Broken Families

They say the walls are too old. The layout too outdated. Two stories no longer work. So now Houston County DHR wants a new building, a bigger, shinier one story fortress to house their...

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