Top 10 Biggest Scandals and News Stories to Rock Family Courts, Child Custody, and Child Welfare in 2025
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December 28, 2025
2025 exposed both progress and profound failure in America’s family courts. While Congress passed the most significant child welfare overhaul in more than a decade, deadly custody cases, foster care audits, and federal investigations revealed how often…
From Safe Haven to Systemic Betrayal: How San Diego’s Polinsky Children’s Center Failed the Smiel Family
November 1, 2025
Hundreds of lawsuits, state violations, and survivor accounts paint a devastating portrait of San Diego County’s flagship children’s shelter — the same facility where Giselle Smiel’s kids were taken before being handed to their abusive father. Polinsky’s…