Expert: Reform for U.S. Child-Welfare System Needed

Published February 10, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Despite being a prosperous nation, the United States fails to care for its youngest and neediest, a child-welfare expert says. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund.

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