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Kelly says that though students likely feel the time crunch, the department does everything it can to foster their growth...
Portraying our nation's foster-care system as shameful will only erode efforts to reform it. We need to focus on attracting some of our nation's best social workers, administrators and resource families to this difficult field. Reform is occurring, and children are benefiting. You failed to inform your readers of the many U.S. success stories in which public and private child-welfare systems are collaborating to serve foster children more effectively. JEFFREY NITZ Huntingdon Valley...
...disturbing that you had to resort to a picture of a dead child to show the sad state of child protection and foster care in the U.S. But the unfortunate reality in Canada, as in the U.S., is that the child-protection system is in crisis. The problems are complex, the safeguards almost nonexistent, and, despite a number of dedicated individuals, children continue to die in horrifying circumstances. What will it take to stop the tragic death of youngsters who were brutally tortured and murdered by their so-called caregivers? I applaud the social workers who are trying to make...
...juxtaposition of your article about the abuse of foster children with the one on the high-tech, billion-dollar telescopes seemed to show exactly what takes priority. We are willing to spend huge sums of money on space research but cannot find enough funds to keep our children from abuse, starvation and exploitation. But somehow money is found to finance prisons for the damaged survivors of our foster-care programs. As a society we have to reorganize our system to protect the future generations, or all that expensive space research will count for nothing and we will be lost...
...commission, constituted by Clinton as part of the Sharm El Sheik cease-fire agreement, is headed by former senator George Mitchell, and includes a number of senior European officials. Its mandate is to probe the causes of current violence, and the President believes that its presence can help foster a climate for renewed talks...