Darice M. Good

I am a child welfare attorney. I defend parents from allegations of abuse and neglect by child protective services and I represent children in the foster care.

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

@XfinitySupport @Xfinity please expand the Big Ten Network so I can watch my University of Washington Huskies or I will be going elsewhere, which I would rather not do as a twenty year loyal customer.

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

@Will_Estrada @BethAMaloney @ABAesq @ABACCL Thank you

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

@sulliwife0923 @RealSpikeCohen @GovKemp Thank you for getting my client's story out there.

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

@RealSpikeCohen Thank you for getting my clients story out there!

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

@Johnrjayatl @EWErickson It's telling me unable to fetch space. So I may be doing something wrong.

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

Incredibly important article. Please take the time to read it.

https://t.co/e0V88P3iEa

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

Parents should be advised of their rights in child protection services investigations.

[NYC Family Policy Project @familypolicynyc]

Rather than manipulate parents' uncertainty, ACS could agree to inform parents of their rights at the outset of an investigation — a demand made by parents, advocates and their allies. Instead, ACS has fought that suggestion tooth and nail. #childwelfare
https://t.co/gbpp315ZZJ

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

Just when we think we have heard it all.

[Andrew Brown 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MrACBrown]

Things you can't make up: a CPS caseworker cited "exposed rose stems, with thorns accessible" in front of a residence as a safety concern.

We must protect the children from the perennials!!! #fostercare #childabuse

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

@MrACBrown Disturbing. And so very sad

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

Terrifying. Everyone is one call away from a child protective services investigation. Help us improve the system.

[Shanta Trivedi @ShantaTrivedi]

“A child is taken from their parents every four minutes in the United States…if you’re a Black kid, you’re twice as likely to be taken and if you’re Native American, three times.” David Kelly, @pubknow This is “child welfare” in America. @NACCchildlaw

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

Sadly true

[NYC Family Policy Project @familypolicynyc]

From @NCCPR: When we think of confusion of poverty with neglect (and it’s taken decades to get the establishment to think about it at all) we tend to think of the obvious: A family is living in unsafe housing but instead of fixing the housing the family police take the children..

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

@HinaEsq @scpuckett06 Such an important point. Parents voice deserves to be heard.

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

There is a huge misconception that foster care is always safer and better than the home the children were removed from. But that's not always true. https://t.co/Xkdj5EMwmT

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

This is a terrifying statistic and I see it every day in my work.

[Alan Dettlaff @AlanDettlaff]

More that 53% of Black children in the United States will be the subject of a "child welfare" investigation by the time they turn 18.

This is not help. This is state-directed surveillance and terror.

[Foster Care Film @FosterCareFilm]

"Most children enter foster care not because of abandonment, but because a state (or county) child welfare agency determines through an investigation that the parents cannot provide safe care."
https://t.co/swr82InQay #FosterCare #RoeVWave

[Kevin Campbell @familyfinders]

What can we learn from New Jersey and the reduction of children in foster care by thousands? Children have parents, siblings and families, they don’t need new ones called foster parents and group care. https://t.co/b5Rc4Yjcdi

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

If we would return children in foster care who don't belong there, we would not need to spend more money advertising for foster parents. https://t.co/3OBYE0gRnO

[Alan Dettlaff @AlanDettlaff]

In 2018, psychologists across the country called family separations tantamount to torture. Yet every year, the "child welfare" system violently tears nearly 250,000 children away from their parents due mostly to poverty. There is a disconnect in our public consciousness.

[Darice M. Good @GoodLegalFirm]

This is how adoption should look. Hats off to these families.

[Kathleen Creamer @FamilyAdvoKat]

Our family defense practice is growing, and lots of new positions are available. Please share this opportunity to join our incredible team of advocates dedicated to supporting parents and families! https://t.co/oJvPrwnH86