Foster system is destroying children

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Judith Meltzer, the court-appointed monitor for D.C.’s famously horrible foster care system, recently reported that “progress in reducing the length of stay in foster care and ensuring a permanent home for every child has been stalled.” Wonderful.

What to know what the future is likely to hold for 600 children stuck in the Children and Family Services Agency’s Dickensian foster care system for five years or more? Ask Ron Huber. The Mount Airy resident spent most of his childhood in foster care, and recently published a book describing its horrors.

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