UM: Foster Care

In an op/ed piece published in the Freep, UM law professor Vivek Sankaran argues that Michigan’s foster care system needs reform. He’s writing in response to a Freep article about the Christ Child House, an orphanage in Detroit: “Here’s the bottom line. The children at Christ Child House do not need to be there. If the system made every reasonable effort to reunify them with their parents or place them with extended family prior to terminating those relationships, a substantial number of them would be living with loving families, not in an orphanage.” [Source]