Socialist assemblyman Zohran Mamdani has taken a dip in the race for the mayor of New York City. An implacable social media campaign has helped him to raise great dollars, despite his probabilities of long -term shooting (at least initially) against headline mayor Eric Adams and former governor Andrew Cuomo.
Mamdani has also adopted a terrible platform or ideas. The materials of his campaign portray him as a candidate of Robin Hood, stack the extreme left passes in the house, public transport and the minimum wage in addition to his opposition to the application of basic immigration and support for anti -Semitic protesters.
However, the bad, as all that is, their sausage politics ideas involve citizens full of the city of the city: children in homemade environments with problems.
The socialist of Queens has placed legislation that would have banned routine drug screens of pregnant and postpartum mothers, as well as newborns, without the written and oral consent of the fathers. The law would also require that the parents of advice of written dissemination consult with legal advisor before signing a consent form because it could exhibit a child welfare investigation.
As we cover in a policy document of the Manhattan Institute last year, this type of proposal is part of a broader impulse by the radical left to dismantle the infrastructure of child welfare. It is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the promoters of abuse and child negligence.
Mamdani would not stop to facilitate that vulnerable newborns remain in the custody of drugs addicted to drugs. It also has a sponsored legislation with coefficient that would have prohibited people from providing anonymous reports of suspended child abuse or negligence.
Instead, the people they call would have to give their names and contact information. In 2023, he co -crocked a bill to demand from child welfare workers to inform the Guardians, again both orally and in writing (in their favorite language), of the numerous ways in which they can refuse to cooperate with child welfare researchers in the first point of contact, whatever the nature of the alleged abuse.
Fortunately, these legislative efforts failed (for now). But as mayor, Mamdani would be ideally placed to implement these ideas, as well as “progressive” prosecutors use their officials to promulgate policies that legislators reject. It is difficult to believe that the positions reflected in Mamdani’s invoices are shared for more than a small minority of New York, they thought that New Yorkers are probably aware that they have them.
Mamdani’s positions are even more worrying given the many recent, tragic and well -documented failures of the New York City Children’s Welfare System. We have covered several children’s deaths that the city administration for children’s services (ACS) could have avoided, and should have avoided. The ACS has allowed too many vulnerable children to remain in the custody of abusive and negligent parents.
Earlier this month, for example, the lifeless body of a 3 -year -old boy was neglected carefully in a Brooklyn hospital for an unidentified woman (the authorities suspect that she mother). Then, the woman fled the scene in a car driven by an unidentified man, possible her boyfriend, who has spread her legs arrested for assaulting the child’s week before her death. The child’s grandmother had the fight for custody since 2022, claiming that the mother had a drug problem.
Earlier this month, a 4 -year -old boy who lives in a homeless people died after he hastened to the hospital. Hiss’s parents, later accused of children’s danger, were trapped in the camera hiding heroin in their BMW. Why was no one monitoring the father, with his long rap sheet for drugs and weapons related judgments?
The current ACS commissioner, Jess Dannhauser, has constantly refused to provide information on what is going wrong in these cases of mortality. The recently summoned a panel or experts to examine children’s deaths. However, he has not made public who experts are or properly explained why another set of bureaucrats should be placed between the public and the facts of a specific case.
While Dannhauser has promoted his “framework of the security culture” in an effort to rehabilitate the agency in conflict, that framework clearly developed to protect the feelings of their employees of the children who have them. The recent ACS record makes it clear, as well as Mamdani’s legislative registry suggests a lack of interest in a robust government role in the protection of children of abusive and negligent parents.
Can the next mayor do something to fix the failed leadership of ACS? The journalists who cover the race should ask candidates this and other questions about their views about child welfare. And they should be so special to a candidate for mayor that horses so that it is more difficult to protect the children of parents as the thesis.
Rafael A. Mangual It is the Nick Ohnell fellow at the Manhattan Policies Research Institute and collaborating editor of City Journal. Naomi Schaefer Riley He is the main member of the American Enterprise Institute.
