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...government can spend billions on a single space mission, but it cannot dedicate more funds for capable foster care? The average car buyer does more research on the auto he or she wants to buy than states do in researching potential foster parents. There are millions of people out there who have loving homes for abused and unwanted children. I hope your investigation opened a lot of eyes and shames the states into major reforms. Which is more important: our future--our children--or exploring the possibility of colonizing space? JANE MCFADDEN San Antonio, Texas...
Your article was not only unbalanced but also unfair. Unfair to the large number of social workers who are trying to make a difference. Unfair to the children whose lives have become more safe and stable in foster care. And incredibly unfair to the foster parents who give their lives and their hearts to the children in their care...
...have trivialized all these people's efforts by dwelling on the inadequacies of the system and showing only a couple of examples of foster care working well. You mentioned a few people who "survived" foster care, but said nothing about those who were nurtured by it. The acts you described are indeed terrible, but they would be happening at an even more alarming rate if foster care did not exist. Solutions are what's needed, not horror stories. GWYNETH JONES Wenham, Mass...
...adoption the answer? As a school social worker who deals with the results of our foster-care system, my response is an unequivocal yes. No child should languish in foster care year after year while parents try to get their act together. You emphasized the abuses that take place in foster homes, but many more occur in the child's own family. The whole system needs a major overhaul. And while the issue is debated, children are growing up feeling unwanted and unloved. Foster care is not the answer. Adoption is. LINDA L. GENTILE East Longmeadow, Mass...
Sure, the foster-care system has failed many children, is too bureaucratic, and, yes, its youngsters are not all in safe homes. But the vast majority are, and they receive quality care from their foster families, with excellent attention by agency social-work staff...