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Article: Foster homes in short supply Placement is often desperate scramble
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 24, 1991
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In November 1989, a Department of Social Services worker visited
a Boston foster home to make sure it was suitable for a 7-year-old
boy who had been placed there by the state because his mother, a drug
abuser, had neglected him.
She was not impressed. She stated in a memo to her supervisor
that the foster mother became "extremely belligerent and threatening"
when the social worker told her she needed to take a training course
for foster parents.
As her biological daughter and the foster child stood by,
frightened and crying, the foster mother screamed expletives at the
social worker and warned her never to come back. She yelled that she
had had nothing but trouble since the boy had been ...