I had no love, no caring, no anything. When people paid me to be with them, I thought that was the affection I needed. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the answer is no. Because most of the parents don't fit the stereotypes. But because we have so stereotyped their parents, we react with indifference or even relief when thousands of poor, often black, children are needlessly taken from the only parents they have ever known.
Family preservation is the most promising innovation in child welfare in decades.
Back to Text. Before the Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation of the Committee on Ways and Means and the Select committee on Children, Youth, and Families, U.S. House of Representatives, April 13 and 28, May 12, 1988. Back to Text. Back to Text. Back to Text. 5.