It's a good reminder to anyone having a family just how easy it is to turn a lovely family's world into a nightmare. The only reason the 'Safe Families Act' remains in the books is because of widespread corporate censorship. There are several people, including politicians, that have been murdered trying to get the word out about this Act. For CPS to show up at your door any anonymous caller, whether real or fiction, can legally bear false witness against you and your family. There is no facing your accuser because this is all 'administrative'. Parents are thrown in a world of terrifying abuse, legal fees, and loss of their children.
It was mind-blowing to listen to other parents tell of their horrifying tales of when CPS showed up at their doors from an "anonymous" tip. This is probably where 'SWATing" someone got started. I recall being alarmed about these stories. Even meeting people who had their own kids confiscated for no real reason at all, to never see them again. They were sold off before any legal representation got traction.
I remember asking my son, who is now in his 30s, if anyone at his elementary school ever asked him any personnel questions about how he felt. He responded by telling me that every morning when entering the class room they would ask the kids to put on paper how they felt on a 1 to 5 scale. He said it was voluntary though. I was was shocked to hear this. I asked him if he ever wrote down anything that could be considered bad. He said "No" and he usually wrote a 3 down, which means "doing okay". It was probably a good answer, but I instructed him at that opportune time he should never volunteer information like that. That it is strictly personal and no one have the right to know. It's family business and these people are strangers that have not earned the family's trust.
As a rule, tell your children that they have the right not answer questions in school. Tell them all teachers, staff, and other personnel there are strangers. Never talk to a stranger about how you feel or about your family and that they are strictly personal. The parents decide on who is not a stranger. Know your neighbors. Be a good ambassador to them. Never piss them off.
Biological parents are given every benefit of the doubt and repeated chances to get their lives together--to the detriment of their children's wellbeing. There are resources, supports, financial assistance programs, and many foster parents and caseworkers serve as cheerleaders for parents to be reunified with their kids.
Children need permanency, thus the Adoption and Safe Families Act. Despite the 15/22 months rule even, many cases extend out by YEARS, leaving children in foster homes instead of seeking permanency for them. Children in high risk homes are OFTEN in and out of foster care throughout childhood, and each traumatic move from one home to another inflicts about a six month development delay in some area (physical, emotional, academic).
There are thousands of foster children currently waiting to be adopted post TPR, and all that's needed is a willing adoptive family. There are thousands more who are separated from their siblings because there is no family willing to take all of them. There are yet thousands more who are in need of better foster parents while they deal with the trauma going on in their bio family.
Foster parents aren't making bank by housing children. It's a 24/7 gig requiring them to be an advocate for a child who has more appointments, meetings, and therapy sessions than most of us have ever experienced as adults. The per diem granted is often nowhere close to covering the actual physical goods needed to bring an extra kid into the home.
While your idea of paying bio parents to do well sounds lovely, it would actually cause children even more trauma when their parents figure out they can game the system by "relapsing" every few years to get paid by the foster care system again.
Are there abuses of the system everywhere? Absolutely. We fix the system as Christians who foster and/or adopt children. AMA.
That is too much common sense for the government to deal with. Breaking up families is too much fun for them to let go .I see this as a wonderful and smart idea . Bravo !
Disgusting. Anything or anyone that Clintons even look at needs to be examined. It's either dirty or soon to be dead.
This was never intended to rehab families and keep them in tact. It was always, since day 1 ALL about breaking up families and providing a mechanism for legally peddling children.
They hide their evil shit through thin veils of nobleness.
It's a good reminder to anyone having a family just how easy it is to turn a lovely family's world into a nightmare. The only reason the 'Safe Families Act' remains in the books is because of widespread corporate censorship. There are several people, including politicians, that have been murdered trying to get the word out about this Act. For CPS to show up at your door any anonymous caller, whether real or fiction, can legally bear false witness against you and your family. There is no facing your accuser because this is all 'administrative'. Parents are thrown in a world of terrifying abuse, legal fees, and loss of their children.
It was mind-blowing to listen to other parents tell of their horrifying tales of when CPS showed up at their doors from an "anonymous" tip. This is probably where 'SWATing" someone got started. I recall being alarmed about these stories. Even meeting people who had their own kids confiscated for no real reason at all, to never see them again. They were sold off before any legal representation got traction.
I remember asking my son, who is now in his 30s, if anyone at his elementary school ever asked him any personnel questions about how he felt. He responded by telling me that every morning when entering the class room they would ask the kids to put on paper how they felt on a 1 to 5 scale. He said it was voluntary though. I was was shocked to hear this. I asked him if he ever wrote down anything that could be considered bad. He said "No" and he usually wrote a 3 down, which means "doing okay". It was probably a good answer, but I instructed him at that opportune time he should never volunteer information like that. That it is strictly personal and no one have the right to know. It's family business and these people are strangers that have not earned the family's trust.
As a rule, tell your children that they have the right not answer questions in school. Tell them all teachers, staff, and other personnel there are strangers. Never talk to a stranger about how you feel or about your family and that they are strictly personal. The parents decide on who is not a stranger. Know your neighbors. Be a good ambassador to them. Never piss them off.
Biological parents are given every benefit of the doubt and repeated chances to get their lives together--to the detriment of their children's wellbeing. There are resources, supports, financial assistance programs, and many foster parents and caseworkers serve as cheerleaders for parents to be reunified with their kids.
Children need permanency, thus the Adoption and Safe Families Act. Despite the 15/22 months rule even, many cases extend out by YEARS, leaving children in foster homes instead of seeking permanency for them. Children in high risk homes are OFTEN in and out of foster care throughout childhood, and each traumatic move from one home to another inflicts about a six month development delay in some area (physical, emotional, academic).
There are thousands of foster children currently waiting to be adopted post TPR, and all that's needed is a willing adoptive family. There are thousands more who are separated from their siblings because there is no family willing to take all of them. There are yet thousands more who are in need of better foster parents while they deal with the trauma going on in their bio family.
Foster parents aren't making bank by housing children. It's a 24/7 gig requiring them to be an advocate for a child who has more appointments, meetings, and therapy sessions than most of us have ever experienced as adults. The per diem granted is often nowhere close to covering the actual physical goods needed to bring an extra kid into the home.
While your idea of paying bio parents to do well sounds lovely, it would actually cause children even more trauma when their parents figure out they can game the system by "relapsing" every few years to get paid by the foster care system again.
Are there abuses of the system everywhere? Absolutely. We fix the system as Christians who foster and/or adopt children. AMA.
^x 10.
That is too much common sense for the government to deal with. Breaking up families is too much fun for them to let go .I see this as a wonderful and smart idea . Bravo !
Disgusting. Anything or anyone that Clintons even look at needs to be examined. It's either dirty or soon to be dead.
This was never intended to rehab families and keep them in tact. It was always, since day 1 ALL about breaking up families and providing a mechanism for legally peddling children.
They hide their evil shit through thin veils of nobleness.