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Article: Child-abuse programs should be kept out of welfare reform.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)(Editorial)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- October 31, 1995
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(c) 1995, The Miami Herald
The following editorial appeared in The Miami Herald on Monday, 10-30.
On this, the Senate has the better idea. It would keep separate from overall welfare reform federal law and money for child-abuse programs. Those hashing out differences between the House and Senate versions should heed the Senate's caution.
Federal law on foster care serves as the floor, the basement floor, for state programs that are designed to protect children from abuse and to save those who have been abused. Leaving child protection to state discretion is playing with lives.
The states have a phenomenally uneven record of coping with child ...