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Every day, numerous children in the US enter foster care due to circumstances beyond their control. With the US Department of Health and Human Services allocating over $200 million annually to Child Welfare Services, and an alarming 400,000 children in the system according to the Children's Defense Fund, the need for intervention is clear. Regrettably, these vulnerable children often endure physical abuse and exposure to drugs in their homes.

Americans have been shocked in the past few years to discover how vulnerable our nation is to disaster, be it terrorist attack or act of God. But what's truly shocking, argues leading security expert Stephen Flynn, is how little we have learned from the cataclysms of September 11 and Hurricane Katrina. When it comes to catastrophe, America is living on borrowed time and squandering it. But it doesn't have to be this way.