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Child welfare advocates say that improved representation for parents and an increase in the number of family court judges could produce results, both for parents like Marcano caught in the legal maze and for children currently languishing in foster care, said Freedman.
“I think the most critical difference for children would be that we could make a dent in our statistical shame, which is that New York State is 48th in the nation for length of stay for a child in foster care,” Freedman said. “It's an unbelievable disgrace that New York state ranks that low.”
