Reagan no expert on foster care

Note: The Reagan he is talking about is Michael Reagan, the former presidents adopted son who has fallen in with the anti-child abuse nuts and become an outspoken activist against family rights.

This is in response to the editorial commentary by Michael Reagan ("Playing the crying kids game," July 3). In it, Reagan ranted about the huge amount of coverage given to the border crisis of separating families. He claims that the media doesn’t really care about the children. If they did, he says they would give more attention to the “400,000 American children placed in our horrible government-run foster care system.”

Reagan repeats the same mistake far too many of us indulge in far too often: We make pronouncements on important issues — e.g., medicine, religion, education — about which we are unqualified to speak. Reagan’s expertise in his byline is given as ‘political consultant.’ He is not qualified to critique our country’s foster care system. As it so happens, I am qualified.

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