Many Say Now Is The Time To Fight Racial Bias In Foster Care - By David Crary at AP News.

"Bias and racism are widespread in the child welfare system. Black children are taken into foster care at a disproportionately high rate and languish longer before being adopted, reunited with their parents or aging out of the system...

'It’s a perfect opportunity to say let’s stop the madness of unnecessarily removing kids,' said Ira Lustbader, chief program officer and litigation director at the national advocacy group Children’s Rights. 'This is an urgent racial justice issue.'

'You see the difference in the courts — two kids coming in for the same type of neglect,' says foster mom Bridgette Griffin. 'The judge looks at them differently, the social workers deal with them differently. There’s more sympathy for the white parents, unfortunately... It’s not fair.'"

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