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I am involved in the life of 3 children in the foster care system. In the last year they have gone home and then come back into foster care with even more issues to conquer. It was one of those cases where there was no legal way to keep the children from returning to their biological mother even though the case workers involved knew that it would result in the children returning to the foster care system again. These children have foster parents who would gladly adopt them so it seems to me that there should be some way of creating legal "loopholes" to get children out of the foster system when there are people involved in their lives who want them.

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