Indian Child Welfare Law Under Attack
The latest edition of our
NARF Legal Review
features a story on the current attack on the Indian Child Welfare Act
(ICWA). ICWA was enacted in 1978. Congress took this action when they
realized that Native American children were being
removed from their families and communities at an alarming rate.
By the time that Congress recognized the problem in 1978, more than a quarter of all Native children had been separated from their families. ICWA was created to improve the handling of Indian child welfare cases and their outcomes. The law has been called the gold standard of child welfare practices. But in recent years it has come under attack. Learn more about these attacks, and how NARF is responding, in the latest edition of the NARF Legal Review.
By the time that Congress recognized the problem in 1978, more than a quarter of all Native children had been separated from their families. ICWA was created to improve the handling of Indian child welfare cases and their outcomes. The law has been called the gold standard of child welfare practices. But in recent years it has come under attack. Learn more about these attacks, and how NARF is responding, in the latest edition of the NARF Legal Review.
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