For The First Time, Data Detail Just How Hard Foster Care Is On Children’s Health

For The First Time, Data Detail Just How Hard Foster Care Is On Children’s Health | Center for Health Journalism:

We’ve all heard or read the gut-wrenching stories of children in foster care who’ve had to endure abusive treatment or squalid conditions, and of social workers and child welfare systems failing to carry out their most basic mission. The prevalence of such stories compounds their awfulness.

............The data did reveal one counter-intuitive finding: “(C)hildren adopted from foster care had worse health than their counterparts placed in foster care.”