Foster Care Survey

[calendria]

 


 


Does anyone have experience with this? I just did a survey on Foster Care and am now very interested in the subject 



 Child Welfare Placement Continuum: What's Best?

https://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/the-child-welfare-placement-continuum-what-s-best-for-children.aspx

Nov 03, 2019 · Just over 400,000 American children live in foster care, and some 47,000 reside in group homes, residential treatment facilities, psychiatric institutions’ and emergency shelters. This type of placement—called “congregate care”—may be beneficial for children …st completed a survey on "Foster Care" and am now very interested!   

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2018/05/02/this-new-federal-law-will-change-foster-care-as-we-know-it


This New Federal Law Will Change Foster Care As We Know It ...

A new federal law, propelled by the belief that children in difficult homes nearly always fare best with their parents, effectively blows up the nation’s troubled foster care system.

Few outside child welfare circles paid any mind to the law, which was tucked inside a massive spending bill President Donald Trump signed in February. ( 2018 )  But it will force states to overhaul their foster care systems by changing the rules for how they can spend their annual $8 billion in federal funds for child abuse prevention.


May 02, 2018 · Children’s average stay in a group home is eight months, the report found. Some states rely more on group homes than others, with the amount of children in congregate care ranging from 4 to 35 percent of foster care children…

[countrygirl12]

I have never saw a survey on foster care. Not interested in fostering kids either. A couple from church has done it. The only way I would want to do it is if the kid was permanently removed from the home and would be eligible for adoption.

The one little boy at church was in the home for 2 years and then adopted. The foster parents had a part in approving the adopting parents (which I did not know happened) and there was a stipulation that they got to be like "grandparents" to the kid (another thing I did not know a foster parent could do) and they are still a part of the kid's life.  Wish they would bring him back to church but I don't know if they keep him over night. I know they go get him and take him places.

[ancmetro]

      There are many orphaned kids living in Foster Care arrangements.
      It is heart breaking for these orphans to discover they were abducted or
      adopted. Many kids cannot locate their real parents. Of course, Foster Care
      is better than no care at all or homeless kids living in the streets.

[Nancy5]

I work for a organization for socially and emotionally disturbed children.  We also have a foster care division.  I have seen terrible abuse on these kids that would make you cry.  It took me a long time to get used to this, but you do.  A lot of kids are available for adoption (the parents have relinquish their rights, or the state took control of the kids).  If adoption is not an option, then the plan is to return the child to the parent, after they have met parenting guidelines set by the courts.  My hats go off to these parents, or single people, who open their hearts and homes to these kids who have been abused, and are scared, have been pulled out of the only home they know, don’t know you and are afraid of you.  You people do a wonderful job and there is a place in heaven for you.

[sdenimandlace1]

Have never seen this survey, it does sound interesting.

[lywb2168]

I have not seen one of those, but it should be interesting.  I have 2 girls and 2 grandbabies, 1 of them where the DAD is MIA, so we are helping my daughter with her while she finishes College, but depending on the circumstances we might consider Fostering.

[countrygirl12]

      There are many orphaned kids living in Foster Care arrangements.
      It is heart breaking for these orphans to discover they were abducted or
      adopted. Many kids cannot locate their real parents. Of course, Foster Care
      is better than no care at all or homeless kids living in the streets.

Another reason not to adopt. As soon as the kid is old enough they want to find the birth parent who gave them up and forget the one who raised them and provided for them.  And not all are "orphans" some come from unfit homes.

[sipingyu]

I haven't done one before. Just read the article you attached below. Very helpful and is an important topic. I want to introduce this topic for my son for him to appreciate the difficulties faced by many children around the world.

[UGetPaid]

      There are many orphaned kids living in Foster Care arrangements.
      It is heart breaking for these orphans to discover they were abducted or
      adopted. Many kids cannot locate their real parents. Of course, Foster Care
      is better than no care at all or homeless kids living in the streets.

There is a better solution in the eyes of some, but unfortunately you cannot unwind time to accomplish it. If only the birth mothers of all of these children had simply had an abortion. That would have solved all of these kids' problems and unburdened society as a bonus!


But why worry about turning back the clock? Let's just round up all of these troubled kids in foster care and kill them now - outside of the womb. We can just call it "retroactive abortion" instead of murder because that label would change everything. We could even get someone with medical knowledge to systematically crush and break apart these living children piece by piece and just suck their parts up a big hose into a vacuum cleaner. It's really too bad we can't really save some of their organs or tissue to conduct medical research or implant into other more worthy living people who need new parts. Those people are so much more worthy of life and all, but no matter how hard we try - we just can't solve every issue by killing two birds with one stone.


DISCLAIMER!!!I understand that I have taken this discussion in a different direction than it was originally intended and am not suggesting that anyone ahead of me was - in any way - advocating abortion. I was just trying to make a point. Feel free to ignore and scroll past my soapbox and return to commenting on the legitimately unfortunate situation of most foster care children - truly heartbreaking as ancmetro put it, but who are still lucky enough to at least be alive, albeit in less than ideal conditions.

[calendria]

      There are many orphaned kids living in Foster Care arrangements.
      It is heart breaking for these orphans to discover they were abducted or
      adopted. Many kids cannot locate their real parents. Of course, Foster Care
      is better than no care at all or homeless kids living in the streets.

There is a better solution in the eyes of some, but unfortunately you cannot unwind time to accomplish it. If only the birth mothers of all of these children had simply had an abortion. That would have solved all of these kids' problems and unburdened society as a bonus!


But why worry about turning back the clock? Let's just round up all of these troubled kids in foster care and kill them now - outside of the womb. We can just call it "retroactive abortion" instead of murder because that label would change everything. We could even get someone with medical knowledge to systematically crush and break apart these living children piece by piece and just suck their parts up a big hose into a vacuum cleaner. It's really too bad we can't really save some of their organs or tissue to conduct medical research or implant into other more worthy living people who need new parts. Those people are so much more worthy of life and all, but no matter how hard we try - we just can't solve every issue by killing two birds with one stone.


DISCLAIMER!!!I understand that I have taken this discussion in a different direction than it was originally intended and am not suggesting that anyone ahead of me was - in any way - advocating abortion. I was just trying to make a point. Feel free to ignore and scroll past my soapbox and return to commenting on the legitimately unfortunate situation of most foster care children - truly heartbreaking as ancmetro put it, but who are still lucky enough to at least be alive, albeit in less than ideal conditions.

I do advocate the New Federal law, however:
Just Saying, there is birth control!  Even if the teen mothers and older women have no control, there is always birth control!

[teresa3200]

I have always thought about fostering but I would want to adopt all of them. It would be so hard to give them up.

[ssarber]

I have always thought about fostering but I would want to adopt all of them. It would be so hard to give them up.

Ironically, My cousins had the same problem. OUt of the 20-30 kids they fostered, the adopted 5 of them and raised them along with their 3 biological children.

[countrygirl12]

      There are many orphaned kids living in Foster Care arrangements.
      It is heart breaking for these orphans to discover they were abducted or
      adopted. Many kids cannot locate their real parents. Of course, Foster Care
      is better than no care at all or homeless kids living in the streets.

There is a better solution in the eyes of some, but unfortunately you cannot unwind time to accomplish it. If only the birth mothers of all of these children had simply had an abortion. That would have solved all of these kids' problems and unburdened society as a bonus!


But why worry about turning back the clock? Let's just round up all of these troubled kids in foster care and kill them now - outside of the womb. We can just call it "retroactive abortion" instead of murder because that label would change everything. We could even get someone with medical knowledge to systematically crush and break apart these living children piece by piece and just suck their parts up a big hose into a vacuum cleaner. It's really too bad we can't really save some of their organs or tissue to conduct medical research or implant into other more worthy living people who need new parts. Those people are so much more worthy of life and all, but no matter how hard we try - we just can't solve every issue by killing two birds with one stone.


DISCLAIMER!!!I understand that I have taken this discussion in a different direction than it was originally intended and am not suggesting that anyone ahead of me was - in any way - advocating abortion. I was just trying to make a point. Feel free to ignore and scroll past my soapbox and return to commenting on the legitimately unfortunate situation of most foster care children - truly heartbreaking as ancmetro put it, but who are still lucky enough to at least be alive, albeit in less than ideal conditions.

So you support killing babies? Wow!  And not every kid in foster care needs to be there.  You need to take in to consideration the nosy busy bodies that tell lies when they get mad at somebody and get DCSf involved when it does not need to be.  Or when teachers report stuff and it is false.  I know locally situations where it took years for a parent to get their kid back because of something that was not true. Maybe women who do not want kids should not be having sex and if she does use protection! Not murder her baby.  No different that abusing or killing it when it gets older.

[countrygirl12]

I have always thought about fostering but I would want to adopt all of them. It would be so hard to give them up.

I doubt that is true.  A lot of these kids are monsters and thus the reason they are bounced around and returned so much.  They are not all angels who just want to be loved.

[alice44]

God Bless you.  I think people who are interested in getting involved in the Foster Care system in some way are doing a great service for the kids today.  I am too old to have another child in my home but applaud those who do.