It's not so fundamentally different up here in Canada. It's just different scope and scale. Our foster kids are also in a pipeline to poverty and criminality,

It's not so fundamentally different up here in Canada. It's just different scope and scale. Our foster kids are also in a pipeline to poverty and criminality, and it's rife with abuse. Our poverty and criminality are just a bit milder on average, perhaps? The broken families at the core of it all are just as painful.