Richard Wexler
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Foster care in Rhode Island: The seduction of Kevin Aucoin
Here’s the thing about children’s “shelters” – those exercises in adult self-indulgence and adult self-delusion that turn real flesh-and-blood children into human teddy bears; those places where some communities dump children as soon as they are taken from their homes, supposedly to be examined and “assessed” by “trained staff” in order to prepare them for exactly what they would have gotten without the shelters – usually a succession of foster homes:
They can be oh, so seductive. FULL STORY
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