Reunification Culture Endangers Kids

New Mexico’s attorney general alleges the state child‑welfare agency has an institutional commitment to reunifying children with biological families even when safety warnings accumulate, and he has sued the agency after an investigation producing 20,000 pages of records, witness interviews, and bodycam footage. The complaint highlights individual tragedies (including a girl who died of neglect) as evidence that a policy orientation — not just resource gaps — can drive harmful placement decisions. — If true, the claim reframes many child‑welfare failures as ideological or cultural problems that require legal and governance remedies, not only funding or training fixes.