Diane Redleaf

Diane L. Redleaf led the Chicago-based Family Defense Center until 2017. She co-chairs United Family Advocates, a federal child welfare-reform policy network, and is author of They Took the Kids Last Night: How the Child Protection System Puts Families at Risk.

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  1. After the Hotline Call

    It’s too easy for innocent parents to get caught up in the child-protection system, and too difficult to then get out unscathed.

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