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Article: Utah needs more foster parents
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2003
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Foster parents are tired of being painted with a broad brush,
particularly when some foster parent somewhere else does something
shameful. They're tired of government scrutiny, so much so that some
committed foster parents are giving up, which compounds the chronic
shortage of foster parents nationwide. In Utah, the need for foster
parents is most acute among Hispanics and in rural communities.
We can't blame people who have already given so much of themselves
from being discouraged by the bad publicity surrounding foster care
abuses by a few bad seeds elsewhere. But we would hope that foster
parents who know how much good can come from providing stability to
children with broken lives will ...