Article: Foster care system in need of reform

WASHINGTON -- Listening to the stories of foster care changes you forever. A foster parent speaks fiercely of her love for the children she adopted from foster care. A mother cries, recounting how she overcame addiction to be reunited with her child. A college student who spent six years in foster care speaks of its legacy of insecurity: "To this day, we struggle with security -- it is like the bottom can drop out from underneath us, and it seems that disaster is just around the corner."

A report released Tuesday by the Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care is the first in-depth analysis of the dual effects of federal financing and court oversight on foster care -- and it found both in ...

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