Don’t sensationalize need for foster-child medications: Letters

Don’t sensationalize need for foster-child medications: Letters

The woman who said “children are supposed to be a little wild and free, that’s what growing up is all about” (Aug. 23) clearly does not understand what kind of foster children we are treating! I have worked in a residential facility in the San Gabriel Valley for the past 24 years and I can tell you that the children we are asked to care for have inherited mental illness from parents or have suffered unspeakable abuse, torture or neglect at the hands of someone they were supposed to be able to trust.