Don't Balance State Budgets on the Backs of Foster Children

Don't Balance State Budgets on the Backs of Foster Children

A foster child's life is rarely easy. There is a lack of permanence, an uneasy sense that his or her circumstance could change at a moment's notice, an implicit understanding that the child is dependent upon the kindness of strangers. I know this because I was a foster parent in Virginia for 12 years and took in children who had been neglected, abused, beaten, shamed and sometimes just overlooked. They arrived in what they were wearing or sometimes with a small bag of clothing borrowed from the agency's clothing closet.