Dr. Cindy Christian reprises her highly acclaimed 2015 David L. Chadwick Endowed Lecture on A Fine Balance, first delivered at the San Diego International Conference on Child Maltreatment. In this important presentation, Dr. Christian discusses the balances required in thinking about child...

The United States has historically faced the challenge of responding to the needs of children without parents to provide for their care. The Orphan Train provides a historical context for today’s social, moral and legal crisis created by large numbers of unaccompanied migrant children arriving at...

Mimi Laver, Esq. Director of Legal Education at the ABA Center on Children and the Law and Director of the National Project to Improve Representation for Parents Involved in the Child Welfare System. Corey Shdaimah, LLM, PhD Associate Professor and Academic Coordinator of the JD/MSW dual degree...