[CliffFletcher]

One of the root causes of this crisis is that responsible and compassionate couples aren't exactly lining up to foster vulnerable children. As we've become richer as a society, and as families have gotten smaller, the pool of parents willing to adopt and foster children older than newborns has actually gotten smaller. No government agency can wave a wand and make thousands of loving and nurturing adoptive families appear. I suspect they know very well that they're often handing kids into less than ideal situations, but they resign themselves to choosing the best of a bad lot and hoping it works out.

I'm not excusing the government in this case. But the bigger issue - a chronic shortage of foster homes - isn't going to go away no matter how many inquiries and firings take place.