A Look At Foster Care

More Information About Temporary Care For Children Who Are Unable To Remain In Their Own Homes

(CBS)  What is foster care?

Foster family care is temporary care for children who are unable to remain in their own homes and are placed in the custody of the county children and youth agency by the courts. Foster parents are individuals who are committed to providing a safe, temporary home for children who have been abused and neglected and are unable to remain living in their own homes.

How many children are in foster care?

According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, over 500,000 children in the U.S. currently reside in some form of foster care as of last year. Each year, an estimated 20,000 young people "age out" of the U.S. foster care system. Many are only 18 years old. The average age of a foster child is 10.

How long do children stay in foster care?

There is no set length for a foster placement. It depends on the circumstances of the child and his/her birth family. But for the children in foster care on September 30, 2004, the average amount of time they had been in the system was 30 months. 29 percent of children leaving care in 2004 had been away from home for a year or longer. 53 percent of the young people leaving the system were reunified with their birth parents or primary caregivers.

What are some of the challenges kids in foster care face?

Being removed from their home and placed in foster care is a difficult and stressful experience for any child. Many of these children have suffered some form of serious abuse or neglect. About 30 percent of children in foster care have severe emotional, behavioral, or developmental problems, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

To learn more about foster care:

• After a year-long study, the Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care recently issued a set of prescriptions for reform designed to prevent unnecessary placements and to speed the movement of children out of foster care. You can read more about them here.

• For more information about foster care from the National Foster Parent Association.

• Click here to read some statistics about foster care from the Administration for Children and Families.

• Casey Family Programs' mission is to provide and improve — and ultimately to eliminate the need for — foster care by providing direct services and promoting advances in child-welfare practice and policy.

[itmaiden-2009]

I am appalled by the lack of validity and credibility that CBS is providing on Foster Care.
Apparently, they are using "state" or "national" information based on falsified statistics.
As a Family Rights Activist/Advocate that has researched and worked with families caught up in the system for a decade now, I can assure CBS that the information they have is not correct or realistic.
Many children are wrongfully removed from good homes, or homes with minor typical issues without a hope of any reunification with the very parent(s) they were removed from. Many relatives who opt to take care of their blood related children are denied as the state places the children in whatever situation pays the state more money.

Whoever is/(are) the mastermind(s) behind the current child "protection" system, obviously is a psychotic sicko who hates children, women and family, and worships in the occult.

[lrosemeade]

I became a foster and adoptive mom 24 years ago and am also an RN, BSN with experience on the child and adolescent ward of a mental hospital used for foster children. Foster parents and caseworkers are so good at getting prescriptions for children that they can get them over the phone without ever having the child seen by a psychiatrist! Psychiatrists usually only see a child for 30 seconds when they make rounds. Therapists spend more time with them or see them for group sessions, but they seldom really know the children and are usually not effective in helping them. Foster parents have their hands tied because they are not allowed to discipline and are threatened by the children because foster kids know they can make allegations of abuse and the foster home will be closed and the children will be moved. It is a miserable system.

[mamaws3angel]

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[mamaws3angel]

(CBS)

Foster family care is temporary care for children who are unable
to remain in their own homes and are placed in the custody of the
county children and youth agency by the courts. Foster parents are
individuals who are committed to providing a safe, temporary home for
children who have been abused and neglected and are unable to remain
living in their own homes. MY COMMENTS---- THIS IS HIGHLY DISPUTABLE!

20,000 young people "age out" of the U.S. foster care system. Many
are only 18 years old. MY COMMENTS------ And when they age out it's like standing in the blinding sun for the first time and having no where to go. They are refugees or immigrants in their own country!

some of the challenges kids in foster care face?
MY COMMENTS---------
Statistics show that a child removed from a home where there is domestic violence is more traumatized by foster care than if they had been left at home!

About 30 percent of children in foster care have severe emotional, behavioral, or developmental problems,

MY COMMENTS------Only 30%?? Oh, that's before they enter foster care and after that approximately 80% will have some sort of mental illness diagnosis so that CPS may receive more money from the Federal Government. How do Federal Government workers believe this b. s. ?

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[njstusfiter]

Child "Protective" Services may protect in a few instances but the majority of time, it DESTROYS FAMILIES! People do not want to hear the truth...afraid of the truth?...about CPS and foster care.

I raised my grandson from birth. He had never lived in my daughter's home, but when she was arrested, CPS took my three-year-old grandson from me! Does that make sense? He was a cherished little boy whose pediatrician often remarked how happy, healthy and normal he was and "lucky" to have a grandmother like me.

Because I didn't have court papers (only notarized papers), I lost my grandson because in the social worker's words, "It is in the child's best interest to be adopted by a young, wealthy family than to be raised by an elderly relative." She also felt that I would not be able to keep him safe because I walked with a cane (for over 30 years).

He was placed in a total of 6 foster homes). My home was declared to be "safe and clean", but he had "developed emotional disorders" such as PTSD, separation anxiety, attachment disorder, anger disorder and an eating disorder (vomited every time he was upset) while in foster care. He learned to swear and had bruises.

He would cry and scream, "I want you, Maw Maw! I want you!" His little fingers clenched in my clothes, the social workers would pry his fingers loose and tell him if he fussed, he wouldn't get to see Maw Maw again. Now, I call that cruel and inhumane!!! How can anyone who professes to love children do that????

[mamaws3angel]

I am gratful CBS/Katie have TRUE stories of the horror of children ripped from their families and placed in foster care!!! Children's Protective Services, Nationwide,is rampant, out of control and goes unaccountable for the many atrocities to our children! Those involved with the adoption act, had fears there was a potential for abuse! It isn't difficult to find that and more.
There are exceptions, "Rescue" these children, don't torment,adopt,and kill them. Parents are confused how to get them back. Policies and Procedures are in place to keep a child from foster care. Is it used? No! There are handbooks and videos explain the court process and caseworkers are to work closely with family to see that a child is placed with family, kin, or another person close to the child, before foster care is considered! If CPS did I would've had my 3 grandbabies for 16 hellish, traumatizing, depressing, mournful, grievious months they were in foster care! My rights were violated by the court! The judges and CPS make court a mockery. My dad's family came here in 1630 and 1750, they left Germany for religious freedom, men and women have fought and continue to fight for, freedom live in this great nation. Is it for nothing? CPS will answer for the atrocites,lies, deception, and will be punished for their crimes, to stop the kidnapping by our government or used as a commodity, to finance one evil and vile agency.
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I am a mother of two in the Dallas TX area. I am married and back in November of last year my husband and I lost our children to the Child Protective Service department. I am writting this to let all know sence the removal of our children have been in now 4 homes. They were removed from two because of abuse and they took them out of the third one and placed them into another one for no apparent reason. I am writting this to let all know that from personal experience my oldest daughter they diagnosted with ADHD just because she did not like school. They said the only time she was to take the medication was while she was in school because the teacher could not controll her. She is 11 children suffer enough by being removed from their family but to place them into a strangers hand and then place them on dope is that not a form of neglect. They are not focusing on what is wrong with the child if anything and then dealing with it I feel all they are doing is washing away the resposibilities of what they agreed on doing. Sence then my husband and I have come along way and I feel the children were taken from our home wrongfully anyways and sence then been phsically abused emotionally abused and put on drugs because they could not handle them. I ask all is this really fair to the children exspecially when the birth parents are really trying and are given no credit.

[abbankston]

I've seen up close what the Florida Foster Care System did to 2 children. I watched 3 kids that were place with there grandmother through the foster care system be put on numerous medications. The 3 children were from 3 different fathers and all were told that they had some kind of mental disorder(s). I personaly am not a doctor but I don't believe that these children had any kind of mental problems they just needed some counceling and some loving dicapline. I even went to one of the childrens doctors appointment one time and the doctor was perscribing another new medication because the child wasen't doing his homework, the doctor said he had ADD. I told him that I totaly disagreed with him but he didn't care because I wasn't his foster parent just his stepmother. These doctors find it much easier to medicate the children than have to spend any real time with the patient to get at the true problem. The foster care system has ruined 2 out of the 3 children I know. And there wasn't a thing I could do because who was I to dissagree with a doctor!!!!