Cleaning up foster care
OUTRAGE. It's the only plausible reaction to the plight of foster children as depicted by ABC in the last several weeks. In a series of news shows, the network portrayed children yearning for permanent, loving families, while growing up in foster care. They had experienced horrific abuse or neg...
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| Published in | Sunday gazette-mail |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Charleston, W.V
Charleston Newspapers
25.06.2006
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| Summary: | OUTRAGE. It's the only plausible reaction to the plight of foster children as depicted by ABC in the last several weeks. In a series of news shows, the network portrayed children yearning for permanent, loving families, while growing up in foster care. They had experienced horrific abuse or neglect and were still feeling the trauma of broken promises and repeated moves from one foster home or institution to another. These intimate portrayals have led some to charge that ABC crossed a line, violating the privacy of the youngsters profiled. Our recommendations were directed to two major sources of foster- care drift. The first are the courts, which have the authority to place children in foster care and the responsibility to monitor their progress toward safe, permanent homes. The second is the federal government, which created and administers a misdirected financing system that encourages states to place and keep children in foster care rather than keeping families safely together or in securing safe, loving homes with adoptive parents or legal guardians. |
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