Black Children In Harris County Are Seized By CPS 3.5 Times More Often Than White Kids [houstonpress.com]
By Schaefer Edwards, HoustonPress, June 28, 2021 Renequa Burch still wonders why exactly Child Protective Services moved so quickly to take four of her five kids away from her in the summer of 2018, but she’s convinced the fact that she and her children are Black had something to do with it. A social worker and mother of five kids between the ages of one and eight at the time (three of them adopted out of foster care), Burch’s first run-in with CPS happened in May 2018 at her children’s...