Little girl’s death highlights desperate need for foster-care reform

Little girl’s death highlights desperate need for foster-care reform

I can’t tell you her name — the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act protects her identity in death. Sadly, it did little to protect her in life. Instead, our child welfare bureaucracy, blinded by a racially based ideological commitment to place aboriginal foster children with family members whenever and wherever possible, “grossly mismanaged” a cascade of disasters that led to her fate.