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Steve Volk

Nov 9, 2026

35:58
being put into the foster care system and what are some of the reasons that they end up there?
36:04
Well, I think one of the big one of the big misnomers about the system is that the kids and you'll read this phrase in the media.
36:12
Kids are taken into foster care for reasons of abuse and neglect.
36:17
And, you know, the abuse is fairly straightforward to define, but it only encompasses in Philly.
36:24
I mean, maybe around 15 percent of the kids in foster care at any given time.
36:29
whereas neglect is a much bigger category and it's kind of a catch-all for things that could be very, very serious or things that could be addressed through preventive services so that family can stay together.
36:41
And in the system, the jargon is they call those marginal cases.
40:34
right?

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