Older children who have established a strong bond to even an abusive parent may in some cases be able to tolerate a long foster-care placement.

We serve thousands of children and their parents in our programs to prevent foster-care placement.

These programs have been extremely effective nationally in keeping children safe at home and preventing foster-care placement.

We have prevented the need for foster-care placement for more than 2,000 children in the last year.

We have increasingly focused our efforts to prevent institutionalization of adults and foster-care placement of children.

But the city's own petition to extend foster-care placement for her children described Mrs. Rogers as "cooperating with the agency in every instance."

Among of the casualties of the current cutbacks are programs originally intended as preventive measures to keep individuals and families from needing foster-care placement.

"Most of our current runaways have a long history of foster-care placement, abuse or homelessness."

It also the second-highest number of foster-care placements and cases of abused children.

The current crisis has been caused because the system has been geared entirely for decreasing numbers of children in foster-care placement.