What's Wrong With This Picture?

I was photographing a high school football game and at halftime a group of young girls went on the field to do a routine that they had learned at a cheer leading camp.  Some of the girls looked as young as three or four years of age.  As they did their routine on the field I moved to several different vantage points to see if I could get something interesting that might be usable for the paper or parents.

That's how this story begins.

First let's see how well you can answer the blog title.  What is wrong with this picture?

If you look at this image, you can find all kinds of things wrong.  I'll even point out the two obvious technical ones to get you started.

1) A really slow shutter speed that didn't stop the motion of the young girls dancing on the field.

2) There is significant flare from the lens being pointed directly at a light source at night.

What more do you see that could be wrong or improved upon?  Composition maybe?  Color balance?  You are probably missing something significant, but you wouldn't know that until I finish the rest of the story.

As the girls finished and I was walking off of the field, a woman came up to me and asked if I had any images of a particular little girl.  I told her that I may have some, but that I would have to check as I didn't recall the exact person she was asking about.  I handed her a card and told her she could look online and see for herself.  She then explained why she was asking and that is what is wrong with this image.

One of the girls in this image is in foster care and it was her foster mother that approached me.  She explained that she couldn't let any images get out of the six year old for fear that her parents could track her down.  She went on to explain that the girl had been in 12 different foster care settings in her six years of life.  She also explained that the girls brother had been in 15.

How can any agency that is charged with protecting children allow 12 different foster care placements by the time a child is six years of age? 

That is the not so obvious "What is wrong with this picture?".

Just think that as you look at the image, one of those girls has been taken from her biological parents, placed in 12 different foster care settings and is only six years old.  It begs the question as to why the agency charged with her care hasn't terminated the parental rights long ago and let the child grow and thrive in a stable loving family.

Twelve placements in the lifetime of a six year old and 15 for her not much older brother. 

That is what is wrong with this picture.

Why is it tolerated?