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pahannock Welfare Director Elizabeth Buntin, the same problem exists in this county. , “We’ve just about exhausted our resources here,” said Mrs. Buntin in a recent interview. “We have a few good people (but) most foster parents would like to have small children who don't have problems.”

This willingness to take only younger children has raised obstacles that the Welfare Department must overcome in order to comply with new Federal law.

Family and Child Services Worker Ellen Mustoe explained that House Bill 518, effective July 1, 1977, revised the Juvenile Justice Code to remove incorrigibles and status offenders—children who have not actually violated the law but are beyond parental control—from the court system. These incorrigibles (dubbed Children in Need of Services

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