Tag: Foster Care System

  • The Indian Child Welfare Act: A Law Failing Vulnerable Children

    The Indian Child Welfare Act: A Law Failing Vulnerable Children

    The United States’ approach to Indian children in foster care is to find any Indian, regardless of the child’s individual welfare. The Indian Child Welfare Act, a law that is four decades old, prioritizes generic Indian culture over the welfare of individual children who find themselves in the foster-care system. Recently, the Supreme Court had…