California's foster-care paradox

California's foster-care paradox


Those later costs come in the form of all those ills that result from children missing out on a good start life: Jail. Drug abuse. Homelessness. Already, a shocking number of children move swiftly from the oversight of dependency courts to the jurisdiction of delinquency courts. Bass estimates that 50% of current prison inmates had some kind of contact with the child-welfare system.