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Article: Foster care system in need of reform
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 23, 2004
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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 ...