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Article: Foster care standards questioned DSS tells of `desperate need' for parents
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 12, 1995
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Forty-one percent of Massachusetts foster homes -- including the
Springfield house where a baby was scalded and died Saturday -- are
run by single parents, responsible for raising the state's troubled
and abused children alone.
In addition, many foster homes -- including single-parent
households -- care for several children at once.
These facts prompted legislators who keep tabs on foster care to
question the system yesterday, given that foster children often have
been abused and neglected and need extra attention.
Officials with the state Department of Social Services have said
they are sometimes forced to lower standards in approving foster
homes and load up homes with several children ...