We can build a society where children and families are strengthened and supported, not surveilled and separated.
Now Streaming
The first season of The upEND Podcast traces family separations during chattel slavery to the family policing system we have today and imagines a safer future.
An upEND Syllabus
Take a self-guided course on family policing’s history, present, and abolitionist future. This is a companion to The upEND Podcast.
Abolitionist Framework Tool
Do proposed reforms to family policing further entrench systemic harms or do they create a society where the need for a family policing system is obsolete?
Family Policing Doesn’t Prevent Child Abuse, Abolition Can
While the family policing system also purports to prevent child abuse, abolition seeks to prevent harm before it occurs in the first place.
Upending The Racialized Family Ideal
Child welfare policies reward those who uphold the American “family ideal” and police, punish, and profit from those who don’t meet it.
California Supreme Court Strikes “Tender Years Doctrine”
This decision will reduce California’s ability to forcibly separate families.
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