I have often said that there are too many people in child
welfare who seem to view the system as the ultimate middle-class entitlement:
Step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own.
To those
who doubt this, I’d like to introduce you to some foster parents in Idaho. Foster parents like Jamie Law. Here’s
what she told the Idaho Statesman about what happened when she first met a
two-day-old infant she would take into her home.
“I picked
him up from the hospital and thought ‘This is totally my kid.’”
Read the full column at the Chronicle of Social Change
And at Youth Today: Read the NCCPR column on Touring the Hellscape of Texas Foster Care
