Foster care systems struggling with capacity issues have placed children into emergency shelters, hotels, out-of-state institutions and youth prisons. Now they're bracing for new pressures if Roe's overturning sends more kids their way.
"We're really concerned that this could blow it up," Mariah Craven of the National Foster Youth Institute told Axios.
Children may end up in foster care because parents can't afford to keep them or aren't able to safely care for them. Some women forced to bring a pregnancy to term may not give the child up for adoption at birth but be forced to later. "The answer isn't, 'Oh, well, we just now need 400,000 loving couples to adopt them,'" Craven said. "This is far more complicated than that."Surges in drug addiction by biological parents has prompted foster care systems struggling with capacity issues to place children into
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