Word: systemization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Sure, the foster-care system has failed many children, is too bureaucratic, and, yes, its youngsters are not all in safe homes. But the vast majority are, and they receive quality care from their foster families, with excellent attention by agency social-work staff...
Portraying our nation's foster-care system as shameful will only erode efforts to reform it. We need to focus on attracting some of our nation's best social workers, administrators and resource families to this difficult field. Reform is occurring, and children are benefiting. You failed to inform your readers of the many U.S. success stories in which public and private child-welfare systems are collaborating to serve foster children more effectively. JEFFREY NITZ Huntingdon Valley...
...disturbing that you had to resort to a picture of a dead child to show the sad state of child protection and foster care in the U.S. But the unfortunate reality in Canada, as in the U.S., is that the child-protection system is in crisis. The problems are complex, the safeguards almost nonexistent, and, despite a number of dedicated individuals, children continue to die in horrifying circumstances. What will it take to stop the tragic death of youngsters who were brutally tortured and murdered by their so-called caregivers? I applaud the social workers who are trying to make...
...willing to spend huge sums of money on space research but cannot find enough funds to keep our children from abuse, starvation and exploitation. But somehow money is found to finance prisons for the damaged survivors of our foster-care programs. As a society we have to reorganize our system to protect the future generations, or all that expensive space research will count for nothing and we will be lost in the chaos of our own planet. CLAIRE TARRANT Mississauga...
...better. No task was beneath him. During impeachment, he was there with everyone on long nights, working and making wry jokes. He believed in the dignity and humanity of his adversaries. He listened more than he talked. He was true to his clients and our system of justice, never wanting to compromise one for the other. He declined every opportunity to be self-important, slipping silently out of the White House, no fanfare. When those with power came for his clients, he spoke for them; when they came for his colleagues or friends, he stood with them; and when they...