D.C.’s new foster care law hands teens a choice adults should make
The Washington Post · Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Naomi Schaefer Riley ·
Giving foster youths a voice is a worthy goal. Handing them legal authority over their own care is not.
Emily Putnam-Hornstein is a professor at the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. They lead the project Lives Cut Short, which documents child fatalities from abuse and neglect.
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