When Sean Hughes and I debated whether it would be a good idea to massively increase spending on foster care, Hughes wrote:
If you look at the data, it’s hard to see any evidence of there being a pattern of foster care entry due solely to material deprivations of poverty.
Presumably he means the data other than —
The three separate studies since 1996 that found 30 percent of America’s foster children could be safely in their own homes right now if their birth parents had safe, affordable housing.
