Black History Month, observed every February, can be celebrated in numerous ways—but comparing the employees of the nation’s child-welfare agencies to “overseers on plantations” is one of the odder ones, particularly if you’re the head of the federal agency overseeing child welfare. But Aysha Schomburg, associate commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, did just that recently.
In an essay on the Children’s Bureau website, she explained that, in the field of child welfare, “oversurveillance leads to mass family separation.” It is worth quoting the piece at length to understand the outrageousness of the accusations she is levelling against the child-welfare workforce.
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