Using lawsuits to prevent foster care: CR’s big epiphany - all these years, they’ve gotten the law all wrong!

Using lawsuits to prevent foster care: CR’s big epiphany - all these years, they’ve gotten the law all wrong!

Back in 2002, I wrote an op ed column for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel criticizing a settlement of one of the McLawsuits brought by the group that so arrogantly calls itself Children's Rights. The problem was the problem found in almost every settlement CR reaches on its own: The settlement did nothing to keep children out of foster care in the first place. The settlement ignored family preservation even though the target of the suit, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, had a far higher rate of removal than many cities. Needless to say it still does.