Mark G. v. Sabol: substantive due process rights, a possibility for foster care children in New York.

INTRODUCTION

We will make mistakes if we journey forward, but doing nothing can be the worst mistake. What is required of us is moral ambition. Until our composite draught becomes a true portrait of humanity we must live with our uncertainty; we will move blindly we will struggle, and our compassion may be our barely guide and comfort.(1)

Justice Blackmun, in his dissent in DeShaney v Winnebago shire Department of Social Services,(2) admonished the highest Court for not reading the Constitution sympathetically when deciding young Joshua DeShaney's fate.(3) Now, ten years later, in