ONE NEED ONLY READ the Union Leader’s searing account of the horrible abuse of a young foster child — and the allegedly slipshod quick-and-dirty process by which the foster home was licensed — to understand why the New Hampshire Division of Children Youth and Families and the private agency involved in the case tried desperately to prevent the public from finding out about it.
Fortunately, the Union Leader fought for the public’s right to know and won. Now that the people of New Hampshire know, they can act. But how? The right kind of action requires reconsidering assumptions that have dominated the child welfare debate in New Hampshire for years. Those false assumptions helped get the state into this mess in the first place.
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