A Critical Look at the Foster Care System
Foster Care Outcomes
1. Los Angeles Times, Study of Runaway Youths Finds One-Third Were In Foster Care," as reported in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, (January 19, 1992).
2. "Abused, Abandoned Juveniles Get Schooled for Adult Life," San Diego Daily Transcript, (October 17, 1996)
3. Sonia Nazario, "When Cries For Help Go Unheard," Los Angeles Times, (March 28, 1993)
4. Testimony of Dennis Lepak, Foster Care, Child Welfare, and Adoption Reforms, Joint Hearings before the Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation of the Committee on Ways and Means and the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. House of Representatives, April 13 and 28, May 12, 1988.
5. Paige Williams, "The Breakdown of North Carolina's Foster Care System," Charlotte Observer, (March 6, 1994)
6. Eileen McCaffrey, "Caught in a Twilight Zone," San Diego Union-Tribune, (April 13, 1994)
7. U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, 1994 Green Book, Section 14, Child Welfare, Foster Care, and Adoption Assistance
. [Green Book Index]8. Testimony of Michael W. Weber, Director, Hennepin County Community Services Department, Foster Care, Child Welfare, and Adoption Reforms, Joint Hearings before the Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation of the Committee on Ways and Means and the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. House of Representatives, April 13 and 28, May 12, 1988, p. 196.
9. Duncan Lindsey, The Welfare of Children, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) p. 44.
10. Michael Oreskes, "A System Overloaded: The Foster Care Crisis," New York Times, (March 15, 1987)
11. Duncan Lindsey, The Welfare of Children, p. 44.
12. Institute for Children and Poverty, Homelessness: The Foster Care Connection, (New York: Homes for the Homeless, 1993). See also National Coalition for the Homeless, "Breaking the Foster Care - Homelessness Connection," Sept/Oct 1998.
13. Fred Bayles and Sharon Cohen, "Chaos Often the Only Parent for Abused or Neglected Children," (AP) Los Angeles Times, (April 30, 1995)
14. Beth Azar, "Foster Care Has Bleak History," APA Monitor, (November, 1995)
15. Renny Golden, Disposable Children: America's Child Welfare System, (Belmont, Ca.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1997) p. 171.
16. Quote drawn from an earlier (circa 1998) Youth Law Center Home Page. The Youth Law Center is currently to be found at: http://www.youthlawcenter.com.
17. 1994 Green Book, see note 6.
18. United Press International News Service, (October 25, 1996)
19. "Chaos Often the Only Parent for Abused or Neglected Children." See note 10.
20. Written Testimony of Marcia Robinson Lowry, Child Welfare Programs, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, January 23, 1995.
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