It’s time SC allowed every child to have a ‘forever’ home and a real childhood.

Children without ‘forever’ homes are those uprooted and shuffled through SC’s foster care system following abuse, neglect or abandonment by their birth parents.  While the courts and agencies can spend years deciding where a child will end up, he or she is often moved from one temporary home another. That means different schools, different rules and constantly changing friends and neighbors.  Too often, children in care are also separated from their siblings.  One can easily understand why they are at increased risk for problems down the road.  And so the cycle of dysfunction continues.

It’s not hard to grasp the human tragedy for these children, our hidden ‘homeless.’ But it’s not just their problem  This travesty affects every aspect of our lives, too — whether  you realize it or not. It negatively impacts our judicial, penal, educational and health care systems, as well as our…