California’s ‘failure to protect’ law allows child welfare agencies to take kids from households scarred by domestic violence. Advocates say the separation can worsen a family’s trauma.
Worried that her abusive partner would kill her or her boys, Jackie had nowhere to go and no one to ask for help. She said her partner had angry outbursts,
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The design of a 50-year-old law could slash funding for victim advocacy groups unless Congress or the state of California intervenes, resulting in cuts to services and staff that many describe as potentially devastating.