Karen Bass: “My bill also requires a report outlining the short- and long-term effects on these families and proposed solutions. As…”

“My bill also requires a report outlining the short- and long-term effects on these families and proposed solutions. As it is, our foster care system is already overrun with over 400,000 children. We know that these kids are in detention right now, but ultimately they will wind up in foster care. Because of the opioid crisis, we don't have enough foster homes for kids who actually need to be in care. The long-term neurological effects that I describe even apply to children who should be removed from home because their parents have either abused or neglected them. So even when the children should be separated, that separation causes tremendous harm. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has again expired.”