Recent developments in California and New York make it clear: Foster care is now known to be so harmful to children—and there is so much abuse in foster care—that agencies providing it are becoming uninsurable.
Private foster care agencies are, of course, portraying this
matter as a crisis. As a result, they’re seeking various forms of immunity from
liability for the horrible things done to some children on their watch. This
should not be seen as a crisis that demands the kind of remedies that could
eliminate the last vestiges of accountability and deny children justice.
Instead, these developments should be seen as an opportunity—a chance to
finally make meaningful change in a system that so often destroys children in
order to save them ...
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