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May 28, 2009
With Resources Scarce, Foster Care System Needs More Help Than Ever
As more foster children are able to navigate the courts, the more quickly their lives will stabilize, write Kristi Pfister and Briana Wagner.
FORUM COLUMN
By Kristi Pfister and Briana Wagner Nearly 80,000 children in California's foster care system require temporary out-of-home care because of parental neglect, abuse or exploitation. These children rely on the courts to make life-changing decisions regarding where they will live and with whom, as well as when and if a family can be reunited. Such decisions have an ever-lasting impact. The decision of where each child will resid...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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