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To: Rambi who wrote (10683)	5/22/1998 6:09:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Respond to of 71178

penni, You nailed one of the larger problems with the California foster care system, that being the sense of impermanence and rootlessness it can instill in children in the system. However, I was leaning more toward the people who go into foster care for the money they receive, and we both know this money is not always used as intended. In California, the system is overloaded and supervision of foster homes and the children in them is not nearly what it should be. I personally know of one person who took in a so-called "troubled teen," because he saw her as offering the best of both worlds--money from the state and a free au pair girl for his growing household. When the girl balked at this exploitation, he promptly took her back from wence she came. He genuinely did not see anything wrong with what he had done. Holly