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Half of sect?s moms in foster care declared adults
2008-05-22 19:23:00 15 of the 31 mothers are adults; one is actually 27.
What is Wrong with Foster Care in America
2008-04-30 16:20:00 My biological mother is mentally handicapped and it was determined that she not able to provide for herself and therefore received/ receives social security checks. Her parents were planning to keep her at home with them throughout her life. But, she got pregnant with my older brother.My grandparents chose to buy her and her now husband a home, furnish the home etc, so they could raise their baby. The baby was born into the toilet because my mother did not know she was in labor. So begun her journey into motherhood. Three and a half years later I was born, in a bed, she still didn?t get the concept of going to the hospital but at least this time she stayed in the bed. My brother was taken away from my parents when he was five after a few weeks of kindergarten the neglect was so apparent that the state intervened. They left the baby, me, because there wasn?t proof of neglect. My parents chose to sell the house and move into a two bedroom apartment. They rented out my bedroom ...
Knee Jerk Reactions and Foster Care
2008-04-30 13:39:00 First: The news article; Dad's Oversight Lands Son In Foster Care ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- An Ann Arbor couple's 7-year-old son ended up in foster care over Mike's Hard Lemonade. Christopher Ratte, 47, a professor at University of Michigan, claims he accidentally gave his son, Leo, some of the alcoholic beverage at Comerica Park a few weeks ago. He said he didn't even know the alcoholic lemonade
Sect children from YFZ ranch all in foster care
2008-04-26 18:29:00 "Separating women from children is always a difficult thing," Azar said. "There were tears by the children, by the women and by some of our caseworkers as well. It's not easy to do, and no one was untouched." But, he said, the separation was "the only alternative at this time" to ensure that the children remain safe and protected.
Polygamist sect kids leave shelter for foster care, for now
2008-04-23 00:37:00 The state won the right to put the children in foster care on suspicion that members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints pushed underage girls into marriage and sex and that all the children raised in the church are in danger of being victims or becoming predators. The children had been removed from the Yearning For Zion Ranch, the renegade Mormon sect's compound in nearby Eldorado.
Foster Care in America: How it Affects Children
2008-04-14 07:00:00 Approximately 800,000 children end up in a foster care home in America each year. Foster care is designed to help orphaned, abandoned and abused children find homes where they are safe and can receive proper care until a more stable home environment can be found for them. The problem is that the American foster care ...
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California?s Foster Care System Fails Another Young Man
2008-03-23 08:05:00 Shawn Sage has been a foster child since the age of two, and the State of California’s foster care system has recently found a new way to try to keep Shawn down. Last October, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Marilyn Mackel denied Shawn request to join the United States Marine Corp. As a 17yr old foster child, ...
Making a Career of Your Love for Children - Foster Care Distance Learning P
2007-11-26 00:00:00 A foster care distance learning program opens up exciting careers in childcare and foster parenting. If you love children and would like to spend your time with them, your love can become an exciting career with foster care distance learning programs. The courses equip the students with the latest information on licensing, accreditation, certification, working ...
A Letter to the CT Insurance Commissioner: 12/10/1999
2007-10-25 03:31:00 This is the actual text in a letter I wrote to the Insurance Commissioner in CT, asking for his help in dealing with insurance companies that would drop our son’s medical coverage for apparently no reason at all. This was a very frightening and horribly stressful time for my husband and I, because ...
The Perils of Foster Care
2007-07-31 16:02:00 Hartford Courant staff writer Charles Proctor asked child welfare professionals in Connecticut about the recent study performed by Joseph Doyle on foster children, which we posted about here. This study is being considered the first empirical evidence that children taken out of the home have more problems with teen pregnancy and illegal behavior, and ...
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Foster Care for Illegal Immigrant Children Criticized
2007-07-23 17:36:00 Speaking of thorny issues, the issue of illegal immigrant children in the US is one that continues to be a very difficult one to get a handle on. We had a terrible situation recently in New Bedford where illegal immigrants were rounded up for deportation and their children were suddenly parentless and very afraid, as ...
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Study Says Foster Care Worse Than Abusive Homes
2007-07-05 15:04:00 In case the bad news on Rhode Island’s foster care system wasn’t enough, here’s some bad news on the foster care system in Illinois — a larger, longer-term study that may have broader implications. From USA Today: Children whose families are investigated for abuse or neglect are likely to do better in life ...
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Substandard Foster Care in Rhode Island
2007-07-02 16:21:00 This is sad stuff. When you work for over a decade in the child welfare system in Rhode Island as I have, you like to think that our system is better than most, but the painful reality is that it is not. In fact, if the statistics cited in the Child Advocate’s lawsuit ...
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Jametta Alston Fights for Children in Foster Care
2007-06-30 14:50:00 Jametta Alston was our city solicitor here in Cranston before she was ousted due to a city charter rule stating that the city solicitor must live in the city. Now she is our Child Advocate here in Rhode Island, and she is doing a bang-up job of calling attention to the issue children’s safety ...
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Broken Foster Care System
2006-09-02 07:48:02 Right Girl has a fabulous post up about a little autistic boy who was murdered by his foster parents. Now, I was a Foster parent, and I tell you it is the toughest job and I can’t understand why anyone would do it for the money. But, there are bad people everywhere, too [...]
Adoption Through The Foster Care System
1970-01-01 00:59:00 There are many viewpoints of adoption. This is the aspect of adopting a child through the foster care system. Adoption is a process of transferring the legal custody
The Differences between Foster Care and Adoption
1970-01-01 00:59:00 Of course, there are many differences between foster care and adoption, ranging from the trivial to the significant. After a child is adopted and postplacement visits h
Foster care for illegal immigrants criticized
0000-00-00 00:00:00 The strip mall storefront of International Educational Services opens up into cheery offices and classrooms decorated with American flags. Open a classroom door, and dozens of smiling children look up from their workbooks for a heavily accented group "good morning."
Foster Care in America: How it Affects Children
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Approximately 800,000 children end up in a foster care home in America each year. Foster care is designed to help orphaned, abandoned and abused children find homes where they are safe and can receive proper care until a more stable home environment can be found for them. The problem is that the American foster care ...
Foster Care in America: How it Affects Children
0000-00-00 00:00:00 May is National Foster Care Month
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