For years, Georgia has failed to do right on behalf of its abused and neglected children. We have spent too little and cared too little. We have handed off responsibility for life-and-death decisions about those children to underpaid, overworked state workers, and when they have failed, resulting in tragic deaths, we have scapegoated those same employees for a failure that we, as Georgia citizens, had made inevitable.
Legally Kidnapped
Monday, March 17, 2014
Child-welfare privatization not thought through
Child-welfare privatization not thought through
For years, Georgia has failed to do right on behalf of its abused and neglected children. We have spent too little and cared too little. We have handed off responsibility for life-and-death decisions about those children to underpaid, overworked state workers, and when they have failed, resulting in tragic deaths, we have scapegoated those same employees for a failure that we, as Georgia citizens, had made inevitable.
For years, Georgia has failed to do right on behalf of its abused and neglected children. We have spent too little and cared too little. We have handed off responsibility for life-and-death decisions about those children to underpaid, overworked state workers, and when they have failed, resulting in tragic deaths, we have scapegoated those same employees for a failure that we, as Georgia citizens, had made inevitable.
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