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Thursday, November 08, 2007

RICHARD WEXLER: REAL FOSTER CARE SCANDAL IS NUMBER OF KIDS REMOVED

RICHARD WEXLER: REAL FOSTER CARE SCANDAL IS NUMBER OF KIDS REMOVED

The real scandal in Kansas child welfare is not that the state is oppressing Sedgwick County by giving authorities "only" 72 hours to keep a child in limbo before a court decides if he ever needed to be torn from his family in the first place ("More time: Courts need flexibility on foster care," Nov. 1 editorial). The real scandal is that somewhere near 80 percent of the children torn from their families in Sedgwick County probably never needed to endure that trauma.

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