foster care

Here’s a riddle: How can a child’s mother become his sister, and his grandmother his mom? Answer: By government edict in America’s newest welfare trend, “kinship care.” Thanks to a biased social service system, welfare recipients anxious for more benefits, and gullible elected officials, the nation’s burgeoning foster care system is being used to discourage adoption of at-risk children and Read More ›

Conna Craig is a former foster child, and adoptee, who heads the Institute for children in Cambridge, Mass. She describes a teenage present-day foster child who observed, “Everywhere I go, someone makes money by keeping me from having a mom and dad.” How can that be? How can the child welfare system that is supposed to protect and serve kids Read More ›