Richard Wexler
Richard Wexler is a noted child welfare advocate and executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform,(NCCPR), an organization seeking major change in America's child protection systems, favoring family preservation, opposing excessive and inappropriate interventions, critical of inadequate or inappropriate foster care and adoptions. In Congressional testimony, Wexler has described the group as "a nonpartisan, nonprofit child advocacy organization." Politics. Though often critical of liberal policies in the child-protection industry, Wexler, in Congressional testimony, identified himself as a "liberal," noting the irony of his positions, which frequently put him at odds with liberals supporting , or working in, an interventionist child protection system. To establish his liberal credentials before endorsing a plan from the Bush administration, he testified in 2006: Government testimony and evidence. Addressing child welfare issues since at least the early 1990s, Wexler has testified repeatedly before Congress and state legislatures, advised the United States Senate Health Subcommittee on Children and Families, and submitted other testimony and evidence to Congress and state legislatures. Media background and coverage. Wexler's interest in the child welfare system originated in his 19-year work as a reporter for newspapers, public radio and public television. Wexler's  writing about the child welfare system has appeared in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", the "Los Angeles Times", the "Chicago Tribune," and other major newspapers. He has been interviewed by the "New York Times," The Washington Post, the "Los Angeles Times," the "Los Angeles Daily News," "Time", the Associated Press, "USA Today," "CBS 60 Minutes," National Public Radio, CNN, ABC's "Good Morning America," NBC "Today", "CBS This Morning", "ABC World News Tonight," the "CBS Evening News," and other media. Wexler is the author of the book "Wounded Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse