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She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away.

Hospitals use drug tests that return false positives from poppy seed bagels, decongestants and Zantac. Yet newborns are being taken from parents based on the results.

Feature • 09.09.2024

Paying for Their Own Foster Care

Episode 3 of Inside Story examines the conflict between legality and morality when states take money intended for foster children.

The Marshall Project Inside • 01.13.2022

Foster Care Agencies Take Millions of Dollars Owed to Kids. Most Children Have No Idea.

The majority of states obtain money intended for foster children with disabilities or a deceased parent without telling them, The Marshall Project and NPR found.

Feature • 05.17.2021

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