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Re "Foster Care: Extreme Edition" [Jan. 10]: As a child, my mother was bounced around and placed in an orphanage, and she married at age 14. She forever had a hole in her psyche due to her abandonment, despite a plethora of available relatives. Too bad this innovative program wasn't available for her!

Patricia Sheafe Piggee, FREDERICKSBURG, VA.

You note that Kevin Campbell is credited with "inventing" family finding. Native Americans won the right to have Native American children adopted by members of their families or, failing that, members of their tribes over 30 years ago when the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 was passed. Congress passed the law because it was in the best interests of the children as well as for the stability and security of Native American families and tribes.

Deanna Paniataaq Kingston, CORVALLIS, ORE.

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