Catholic World Report, The Dispatch, Monday, November 28, 2022
Catholic World Report, The Dispatch, Monday, November 28, 2022
“If we really are pro-life,” says Lisa Wheeler, “and if we are really about caring for the child in the womb, the unborn, the mother, then we have to be looking at the crisis of foster care. At a time when the emphasis on the nuclear family has noticeably weakened, thousands of children face the prospect of growing up without ever having established permanent family connections. There are more than 400,000 children in the American foster care system who have no permanent home. Some of those children will eventually be reunited with their birth parents, but more than 114,000 are legally free to be adopted. Many of the children and youth who are waiting to be adopted are at risk of aging out of foster care at 18.