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Nccprorg: NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
The Times-Dispatch series this summer “Struggling for Support” paints a picture of children enduring horrific suffering while overloaded caseworkers look the other way, refusing to investigate cases or remove children in time. That’s half the story — or maybe less than half the story.
Because for every such case there is another in which children were torn needlessly...
● Last week, an NCCPR Blog post asked the question: “How often is institutionalizing children, and the foster-care system in general, not the cure for children’s “behavioral problems” – but rather the cause?”
Suppose, hypothetically, a big pharmaceutical firm comes up with what they think will be a miracle drug. They call it, say, Fosterox. They are in a hurry and worry they can’t find enough test subjects for their clinical trials if they seek informed consent. So they use the drug on human subjects without such consent.
The initial trials are inconclusive. The lead rese...