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Children In Foster Care: The Odds Are Against Them, Shawna Doughman
Children In Foster Care: The Odds Are Against Them, Shawna Doughman
GGU Law Review Blog
Most child welfare reports that lead to removal of children from their homes are filed for neglect rather than abuse. Often, their parents want to take care of them, but are failing for one reason, or for many. Nonetheless, the lion’s share of the $30 billion annual budget of state and federal child welfare funding goes overwhelmingly to foster care and adoption services which remove the children from their parents, instead of to helping those families care for their own children.
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