Too Poor to Parent? | Reproductive Justice and Gender | AlterNet

TOO POOR TO PARENT?
At lunch yesterday I watched as the Texas FLDS children were loaded on buses in order to rightfully return them to their parents. It seems a misplaced concern to worry about children who are being cared and loved (if they are not truly being abused) and not worry about the countless kids out there who are being abused and who we know do go hungry every day as a routine matter of course. As this article shows, black children are twice as likely to enter U.S. foster care than white children. While some just use this as kindling for their own racial notions, the real culprit is our inattention to poverty.
(MS, unearthed by AlterNet)