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What’S Missing From Foster Care Reform? The Need For Comprehensive, Realistic, And Compassionate Removal Standards, Theo Liebmann

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Class action litigations, media commentary, and statistical data have time and again laid bare the tragically poor quality of foster care in this country. In response to the extensive nature of these problems, federal and state commissions have been established to study what ails the foster care system, to issue reports on their findings, and to make recommendations for reform. But a critical component of reform has been missing. In order truly to protect children from the perils of the foster care system, we must examine the out-dated and short-sighted standards nearly every state currently uses to justify initially removing …