PEDIATRICS Vol. 71 No. 1 January 1983, pp. 137-138
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Foster Care Children

HOWARD B. DEMB MD1

1 St Dominic's Home, Western Highway, Blauvelt, NY 10913

To the Editor.—

After reading Schor's article "The Foster Care System and Health Status of Foster Children" (Pediatrics 1982;69:521) I wished that there was one point he would have made more clearly. Namely, that the population of children coming into foster care has a high incidence of psychopathology, much of it rather severe. A corollary point should also be made, ie, that the quantity and quality of psychopathology produced by the fact of entering foster care is minimal by comparison to the nature and extent of the psychopathology already present in these children when they come into foster care.