Child Welfare Financing in New Hampshire 2010

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New Hampshire’s Children
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Child Population: 293,358 Children Living in Poverty: 25,878 Child Poverty Rate: 9.0%

Child Abuse and Neglect
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Child Victims: 912
*Percentages may not total 100% because abuse or neglect can be reported in one or more categories.
Foster Care
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Number of Children in Foster Care:* 1,084
Average Length of Stay in Foster Care: 33.7 mos.
Abused and Neglected While in Foster Care: n/a
*Foster care includes family foster care, group care and institutional care
Permanency
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Number of Exits from Foster Care: 549
Type of Exit Percent (%)
Adoption 22.4
Reunification 51.5
Legal Guardianship 1.3
Other 22.8
Missing Data 2.0
Number of Children Waiting for Adoption: 250
Relative Caregivers
5

Number of Children Living with Relatives
Without Either Parent Present
(not necessarily in foster care): 3,869
Subsidized Guardianship Program? No
Sources and Notes
(All data provided are most current available as of November 2009)
1) Child population: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, "Estimates of the Resident Population by Selected Age Groups for the United States,
States, and Puerto Rico: July 1, 2008," Calculations by CDF; Children living in poverty and rate of children living in poverty: U.S. Department of Commerce,
Bureau of the Census, 2008 American Community Survey, Table B17001. Calculations by CDF.
2) National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect. (2007). National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) Child File 2007 [data file], available
at http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/index.html.
3) Number of children in foster care and length of stay in foster care: U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Background
Materials and Data on the Programs within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means (2008), Table 11-62 & 11-72, calculations by CDF; Abused or
neglected while in care: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACF), Child Maltreatment
2007 (April 2009), Table 3-17, calculations by CDF; Children with 2 or Fewer Placements: U.S. DHHS, ACF, Administration on Children, Youth and Families,
Children’s Bureau, Child Welfare Outcomes 2002-2005, Table 6.1; Children waiting to be adopted: U.S. DHHS, ACF, Administration on Children, Youth and
Families, “Children in Public Foster Care Waiting to be Adopted: FY 1999 thru FY 2006.”
4) Child Welfare Outcomes 2002-2005. Tables 3.1, 4.1, 5.1.
5) U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 2000 Census American Fact Finder Advanced Query. Calculations by CDF of the number of children
living in relative-headed households without either parent present; and CDF States’ Subsidized Guardianship Laws At A Glance 2008.
Type of Abuse and Neglect Percent (%)*
Neglect and Medical Neglect 74.8
Physical Abuse 19.3
Sexual Abuse 14.8
Psychological and Other Maltreatment 2.0
Percent of Children Reunified Within:
Less than 12 months: 63.6
Between 12 – 24 months: 20.5
More than 24 months: 14.8
Percent of Children Adopted Within:
Less than 12 months: 4.1
Between 12 – 24 months: 11.4
More than 24 months: 84.5
Subsidized guardianship programs help children live
permanently with a legal guardian (often a relative or close
family friend) with ongoing payments to provide for the needs
of the child. States with such programs may or may not opt to
request federal Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payments for
eligible children.
Percent of Children with 2 or Fewer Placements in Care:
Less than 12 months: 81.2
Between 12 – 24 months: 65
More than 24 months: 38.2

Read more at the above link, including Child Welfare Financing

Children in New Hampshire State Fact Sheet

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Children in New Hampshire
January 2011
289,071 children live in New Hampshire:
1,029 are American Indian/Alaska Native
6,800 are two or more races
7,161 are Black
7,341 are Asian/Pacific Islander
13,357 are Hispanic
255,194 are White, non-Hispanic
In New Hampshire:
A child is abused or neglected every 9 hours.
A child dies before his or her first birthday every 5 days.
A child or teen is killed by gunfire every 1 year.
New Hampshire Ranks:*
8th among states in percent of babies born at low birthweight.
Best state is Alaska; worst state is Mississippi
14th among states in per pupil expenditures.
Best state is New Jersey; worst state is Utah
7th among states in its infant mortality rate.
Best state is Washington; worst is the District of Columbia
[*1st represents the best state for children and 51st
represents the worst state for children in the country]

Child Poverty in New Hampshire
Number of poor children (and percent poor) 30,602 (10.8%)
Number of children living in extreme poverty (and percent in extreme poverty) 12,744 (4.5%)
Number of adults and children receiving cash assistance from Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) 13,183
Maximum monthly TANF cash assistance for a family of three $625

Child Health in New Hampshire
Number of children without health insurance (and percent uninsured) 15,000 (4.7%)
Number of children enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)* 13,197**
CHIP eligibility: 300 percent of federal poverty ($66,150 for a family of four)
Number of children enrolled in Medicaid 84,890**
Medicaid and CHIP participation rate 85.6%
Children as a percent of total Medicaid enrollment 57.5%
Medicaid expenditures on children as a percent of total Medicaid expenditures 26.4%
Percent of two-year-olds not fully immunized 21.3%
*States may have a different name for CHIP
**The number of enrolled children throughout the year rather than on a given day Child Hunger in New Hampshire
Number of children who receive food stamps 25,913
Percent of eligible persons who receive food stamps 66.0%
Number of children in the School Lunch Program (free and reduced price only) 34,120
Number of children in the Summer Food Service Program 4,706
Number of women and children receiving WIC (Supplemental Nutrition Program
for Women, Infants, and Children) 17,905
Early Childhood Development in New Hampshire
Percent of children under age 6 with all parents in the labor force 69.6%
Number of children served by Head Start 2,056
Number of children served by the Child Care Development Fund/CCDBG 7,200
Average annual cost of child care for a four-year-old in a center $8,035
Percent of 3-year-olds enrolled in state pre-k, Head Start, or special
education programs 8.1%
Percent of 4-year-olds enrolled in state pre-k, Head Start, or special
education programs 11.6%
Education in New Hampshire
Annual expenditure per prisoner $27,806
Annual expenditure per public school pupil $10,396
Percent of public school fourth graders:
unable to read at grade level 59%
unable to do math at grade level 44%
Percent of public school eighth graders:
unable to read at grade level 61%
unable to do math at grade level 57%
Number of high school students who drop out of school annually 2,072
Child Welfare in New Hampshire
Number of children who are victims of abuse and neglect 984
Number of children in foster care 930
Number of children adopted from foster care 135
Number of grandparents raising grandchildren 5,610

Youth at Risk in New Hampshire
Percent of 16- to 19-year-olds not enrolled in school who are not high
school graduates 2.6%
Averaged freshman high school graduation rate 83.4%
Percent of 16- to 19-year-olds unemployed 18.5%
Number of juvenile arrests 7,417
Number of children and teens in juvenile residential facilities 156
Ratio of cost per prisoner to cost per public school pupil 2.7
Number of children and teens killed by firearms: 1
0 homicides; 1 suicide; 0 accidents; and 0 undetermined
Compiled from the most up-to-date data available as of January 2011. For data sources, please visit
www.childrensdefense.org/cits
For more information on the state of America’s children contact:
Children’s Defense Fund
25 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 628-8787
1 (800) 233-1200
www.childrensdefense.org

Children Kidnapped By SS 15th August 2011

The U.S. is no better when the Police and DCYF come into someones house claiming to have a court order and warrant to steal the children, yet refuse to show either. Maybe it's because they didn't have either! Been there in New Hampshire!

Come, Let us Puke Together!

FAMILY PRESERVATION ADVOCACY: Come, Let us Puke Together!

Let us bow our heads and puke together.

Interview with Jennifer Grant author of Love You More: The Divine Surprise of Adopting My Daughter, entitled "Adoption is Not a 'Ministry'' Jennifer challenges interracial adoption, and why it’s more than a “missionary” project....yet she speaks of being "called by God."



The publisher describes the book thusly:
Following the invisible thread of connection between people who are seemingly intended to become family, journalist Jennifer Grant shares the deeply personal, often humorous story of adopting a fifteen-month-old girl from Guatemala when she was already the mother of three very young children.
Her family's journey is captured in stories that will encourage not only adoptive families but those who are curious about adoption or whose lives have been indirectly touched by it. Love You More explores universal themes such as parenthood, marriage, miscarriage, infertility, connection, destiny, true self, failure and stumbling, and redemption.
Note that she believes this child was 'intended' for her! I find that the most arrogant thought anyone could possibly have. You mean to tell me that God intended for a child to be born to parents unable to raise him or her, becoming an orphan, and "languish" in an orphanage fifteen months, just to be there for YOU! Her original parents died or suffer a major loss for YOU!? Are you kidding me?


"Adoption is wonderful for growing a family" she says. And indeed reviewers have said of her book: "Love You More is a wonderful book describing the journey of a family being completed by the adoption of their little girl from Guatemala." But she believes it is not the best way to address global issues of poverty. Yet she did it and now preaches this. HUH?

And, not only did she adopt, because she was 'called by God' to do so, but how odd that God - in His infinite wisdom - would have called this American woman and her husband to ignore the 120, 000+/- children in US foster care who can never be reunited with their original families and who could be adopted, and instead to adopt from Guatemala, a nation plagues with crime and impunity, kidnappings and child trafficking! Odd, eh? Do you think "God" just didn't know, like the agencies that handled these adoptions?

Love you More, the title of her book nauseated me from the moment I heard it. I found it offensive, albeit unintended. Is love or adoption a competition? Does she love her child more than she loves her husband, or are they not just different kinds of love?

As a mother of three, how do her other children feel about that title, I wonder? Did it hit them in the gut as it did me and make me squirm with discomfort? Do they wonder exactly what that title implies and what the whole book says about them and their relationship with their mother? Why is this one child singled out for an entire book?

Is she implying she loves her daughter more than her daughter loves her or that she loves her adopted daughter more than her daughter's other mother does or could have? I don't get measuring love in terms of more or less.

If anyone has read the book and cares to share, please do so. (Though I will NOT allow this blog to become an advertisement for the book, so please save your praise for anywhere other than here.)

Meanwhile, excuse me while I will reach for a barf bucket to rid myself of the bile created by this woman's eagerness to exploit her daughter's image and life in order to pat her self on the back for saying that patting oneself of the back for adopting should NOT be the motivation for adopting.

The Case For and Against Antidepressants

Janov's reflections on the Human Condition: The Case For and Against Antidepressants

Thursday, August 18, 2011
The Case For and Against Antidepressants


There is polemic going on in the magazines about the use of antidepressant medication. It seems like the case against them is gaining ground. The Week magazine (July 29/11) seems to feel that they are useless. Worse, no one knows how they work or where in the brain. And in some studies they are about equal to placebos.

It all gets confusing, more so when there is no real understanding about what depression is. So allow me to enter the fray. Depression is repression elevated to great heights due to the onslaught of very early trauma and is a counterpart repression. The deeper the depression the more likely it emanates from our life before birth at even at birth. It is, in effect, massive global repression. And what happens is that catastrophic imprinted pain has to be repressed continuously; and in the service of repression there is an exhaustion of serotonin (and other inhibitors) supplies. Thus, it may be possible during life in the womb that our set-points for serotonin are very low and remain so throughout our lives. Naturally, then we grow up needing outside help to boost our supplies of key inhibitory medication. We may take any one of the SSRI’s to enhance serotonin. Those repressors lighten the burden of a system overloaded with pain. They help ease the load and lend a shoulder to the gating system. So do they do any good? Of course, if we are simply helping normalize supplies; all of these key mental medications do is mimic what the brain normally does all of the time. But when the system is overloaded the brain cannot function normally. Then we need outside help.

So how is it that placebos do almost as good as SSRIs? Because thru suggestion we produce the very same painkilling chemicals that we do with real medication. That is why it is so easy to sell hope. The dispensers of booga booga nearly always get rich because their ideas, now inculcated into us, cause the dispensation of pain- killing chemicals. And we think that the phony product really works. It isn’t the product it is the vendor. It isn’t that phony and neutral medications work as well as real ones; it is that the suggestion or implication that accompanies giving the placebo works in the brain to manufacture neuroinhibitors which enhance gating. So it is hope again, sold in the form of implication, “This ought to do the job.” That is why cults and religion works so well; that dispense hope; the dispenser is the cult and the leader. He actually controls the pain of the worshiper. He tells us he is making a better world for us but meanwhile we are obliged to make a better world for him (and it is most often males) by giving him our money and possessions.

So now there is the assumption that we are dealing with a chemical imbalance; and if we are satisfied to deal with only surface appearances then it is true. There is an imbalance which is only part of the story. What causes it is what is not obvious and what is not seen or even imagined. If a theory doesn’t allow for deeper events then it will never be seen. And here again we have cognitive therapy dealing only with what is current and obvious, but not really true.

Without a proper theory and a bit of science, to boot, one can give into the notion that these drugs do help only slightly. If we don’t know how deep the pain lies, and if we don’t know that ideas produce painkillers, and if we don’t know that ideas that contain hope work the same way in the brain as true medications, then we will never understand how to deal with depression. Too often we just address each new medication de novo, as something new and unrelated and we do not place it into a gestalt context (meaning an overview). There are those who swear that anti-depressive medication has helped them. And it does by normalizing the balance that the system should do on its own. Overload of pain prevents it. Helping the system produce enough to make us feel better is all it is about.
Posted by Arthur Janov
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9th WAVE - GROUNDBREAKING US SUPREME COURT RULING

Infant stress in monkeys has life-long consequences-Both of these studies suggest that stress on infants has long-term negative effects

BBC News - Infant stress in monkeys has life-long consequences

Baby monkeys grew up anxious and anti-social after the stress of separation from their mothers, a study says.

It suggests changes to the brains of infant monkeys may be irreversible, and the study could be a model for humans.

An early shock to the system may leave the monkeys prone to a life of anxiety, poor social skills and depression.