As the election year progresses, many candidates in both parties and at every level will say it. Child-welfare professionals work mightily to make it a reality. Our country’s laws and policies are intended to promote its essential truth: Every child deserves to grow up in a safe, permanent and loving family. Yet tens of thousands…

You know elections are upon us when politicians start talking about wanting to “close up” the Internet, or censor Twitter and Facebook.  Throw in a couple terrorist attacks and you have the perfect storm for loss of cherished First Amendment rights. Donald Trump’s suggestion that America should consider “closing up the Internet in some way…

Two republican state legislators in Illinois co-sponsored a bill that lit up my social media feeds this week and sparked an outpouring of fury about regressive ideas about family and cold-hearted attitudes about public assistance. The good news is that, at least in part because of all that criticism, one co-sponsor withdrew his support from…