All Posts Tagged With: "foster care"
Are Welfare State Orphans in Good Hands?
On February 22, 2010, a court in suburban Washington, D.C., passed judgment in one of the most horrendous cases of child abuse in modern times. Renee Bowman, the adopting parent of three girls, had for years starved, neglected, and beaten them, while keeping them locked night and day in their bedroom. She choked two of the [...]
20May2010 | James L. Payne | 4 comments | ContinuedAre High Taxes the Basis of Freedom and Prosperity?
In the November 2006 Scientific American, Jeffrey Sachs, economic consultant to governments and the UN, argues (yet again) for higher U.S. taxes and more government officials with ever-increasing powers over their subjects. These perennial and inevitable conclusions are hung (here) on a Nordic peg. According to Sachs, F. A. Hayek, “the Austrian-born free-market economist, . [...]
1Oct2007 | Sudha R. Shenoy | 9 comments | ContinuedRethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century
America’s government-run foster care system has miserably failed the most vulnerable children in our society. It is a complex and expensive bureaucracy administered by social workers whose overriding goal is “family preservation”—that is, counseling troubled or abusive parents in efforts to reunite them with their children who have been placed in what is supposed to [...]
1Jun2000 | Daniel T. Oliver | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Professionalization of Parenthood
Susan Orr is director of the Reason Public Policy Institute’s Center for Social Policy in Washington, D.C. What do the following things have in common? The child-care initiative, foster care, Head Start, and the child-abuse prevention effort “Healthy Families.” All are programs for children and all receive government funding, most at the federal level. They [...]
1Jun1999 | Susan Orr | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Home by Richard McKenzie
Ms. Boudreaux is a research associate at Clemson University’s Center for Policy & Legal Studies. According to statistics, there were 442,000 children in foster care in the United States in 1992, nearly 50 percent more than in 1985. Critics argue that this system is grossly unfair to children, keeping them bound for years in a [...]
1Jan1997 | Karol Boudreaux | 0 comments | Continued-
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