This can't go on this way indefinitely, ... We need to get this leadership issue behind us.

The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.

This is our opportunity to change the leadership of the White House,

State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21.

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.