US: Child welfare agencies aren’t meant to rehabilitate parents but protect children (Opinion)
USA Today – October 21, 2021
The growing pressure to reduce the number of kids in foster care – prompted by the increasingly popular idea that foster care is structurally racist and punishes people for being poor – is pushing caseworkers to leave kids in unsafe situations. A whole movement to “abolish foster care” has sprung up, with its leaders and proponents arguing that removing children from their families could simply end if we provided more support like housing vouchers and food stamps to parents.
Also: Foster parents call for reform of system that fails abused children: Reader view (Opinion): https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/readers/2021/03/19/foster-parents-call-reform-system-fails-children-reader-view/4771692001/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/10/21/foster-care-child-abuse-naomi-schaefer-riley/8526109002/