New York Officials Take Children From Parents Who Smoke Marijuana
(NEWSER) – Heroin, cocaine, and Mary Jane are all treated the same by child welfare authorities in New York City: even a legal amount of marijuana at home means your children can be taken away, even permanently, the New York Times reports. Several hundred of the city's casual dope smokers have been drawn into civil child neglect cases over the past few years, even though states and localities nationwide are loosening marijuana laws—and 730,000 residents of the Big Apple are said to use the drug annually.
Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
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When and How Can an Adoption Be Challenged?
When and How Can an Adoption Be Challenged? - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com
When Can an Adoption Be Blocked
The specifics of the adoption process differ from place to place according to state law, but there are many stages along the way where an adoption can be challenged and potentially blocked. Especially when an adoption is contested, the process can be a complex, lengthy, and legally tricky one.
One important rule of thumb to keep in mind is that the deeper it gets into the process, the less likely it is that an adoption can be successfully contested. Courts need highly compelling reasons to reverse an adoption process that is well underway, and they need extraordinary reasons to overturn an adoption that has already been finalized.
When Can an Adoption Be Blocked
The specifics of the adoption process differ from place to place according to state law, but there are many stages along the way where an adoption can be challenged and potentially blocked. Especially when an adoption is contested, the process can be a complex, lengthy, and legally tricky one.
One important rule of thumb to keep in mind is that the deeper it gets into the process, the less likely it is that an adoption can be successfully contested. Courts need highly compelling reasons to reverse an adoption process that is well underway, and they need extraordinary reasons to overturn an adoption that has already been finalized.
Jury Sees Video Of Mom Forcing Hot Sauce On Adopted Son
Jury Sees Video Of Mom Forcing Hot Sauce On Boy | FoxNews.com
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Hot sauce is a dinner table option to some parents. But to prosecutors in Alaska, forcing it on a 7-year-old boy as punishment amounts to child abuse.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Hot sauce is a dinner table option to some parents. But to prosecutors in Alaska, forcing it on a 7-year-old boy as punishment amounts to child abuse.
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Who is in "The System" -- and Why
Who is in "The System" -- and Why
Some parents are vicious. Some
parents are sadistic. Some parents brutally
beat, rape, torture, and murder their children.
Those cases get intensive public and
media attention -- as they should.
But the typical foster child was not taken
from a parent like that. Such cases represent a
tiny fraction of the child protective services
caseload.
Out of every 100 children investigated as
possible victims of abuse, four are
“substantiated” victims of all forms of physical
abuse, from the most minor to the most severe,
about two more are victims of sexual abuse.
Many of the rest are false allegations or cases in
which a family's poverty has been confused with
neglect.
1
Far more common than a child who
comes into care because he was beaten are
children who come into foster care because the
foodstamps ran out or because an illness went
untreated after parents were kicked off Medicaid
or because a single mother trying to stay off
welfare could not provide adequate supervision
while she worked. Indeed, the former director of
intake for child protective services in Denver,
Colorado acknowledges that some children are
taken just because their parents are down on
their luck, out of work, or unable to provide
adequate shelter.
2
Three separate studies since 1996
have found that 30 percent of America’s foster
children could be safely in their own homes right
now, if their birth parents had safe, affordable
housing.
3
A fourth study found that “in terms of
reunification, even substance abuse is not as
important a factor as income or housing in
determining whether children will remain with
their families.”
4
A study of "boarder babies" -- children
who spend months in hospitals, found that the
biggest single factor causing their forced hospital
stays was lack of housing.
5
Families struggling to keep their
children out of foster care are stymied by two
major problems: homelessness and low public
assistance grants, according to two New York
City studies.
6
A study of "lack of supervision" cases
in New York City found that in 52 percent of the
cases studied, the service needed most was
what one might expect -- day care or
babysitting.
9
But the "service" offered most often
was foster care.
Courts in New York City and Illinois
have found that families are repeatedly kept
apart solely because they lack decent housing.
10
In Genesee County, Michigan, which
includes Flint, from 2000 to 2003, the foster-care
population doubled – and even the head of the
county child welfare office said one of the main
reasons is they’re removing children from
women forced to leave their children with
unsuitable caretakers while they go to jobs they
must take under the state’s welfare laws.
11
In California, homeless children were
given emergency shelter only on condition that
they be separated from their parents, until a
successful lawsuit put an end to the practice.
12
The National Commission on
Children found that children often are
removed from their families "prematurely or
unnecessarily" because federal aid formulas
give states "a strong financial incentive" to
do so rather than provide services to keep
families together.
13
And across the country, several people
who have run child welfare systems have
acknowledged that their own systems take away
too many children.
In Washington D.C., where the foster
care system was run for several years by the
federal courts, the first receiver named by the
court to run the agency found that between onethird and one-half of D.C.'s foster children could
be returned to their parents immediately -- if they
just had a decent place to live.
14
A former District Administrator in
Broward County Florida estimated that 35
percent of the children in that county’s foster
care system could have remained safely in their
own homes had the right kinds of help been
provided.
15
And the former head of one of the
nation’s largest child welfare systems, Los
Angeles County’s put the figure at up to 50
percent.
16
Compounding the problem: Child
welfare workers sometimes are in denial about
the importance of providing concrete help to
families. A study of cases in Milwaukee County,
Wis. found that housing problems were a key
cause of removal and a key barrier to
reunification. But The researchers write that
while birth parents “see housing as a major
source of concern …child welfare workers are
less attentive to this concern.”
They continue:
“Perhaps child welfare workers in
Milwaukee are more focused on parental
functioning and less attentive to concrete needs
such as housing because of the principles
guiding agency practice and the workers’
education and training. Alternatively workers …
may tend to ignore housing as a problem rather
than deal with the cognitive dissonance caused
by the recognition that they cannot help their
clients with this important need.”
17
Just as not every parent is sadistic, not
every parent is blameless, either. There is the
broad range of cases in-between the extremes --
cases where a parent may well be partly to
blame, but where intervening to preserve the
family is still the best way to protect the child.
Read More:
Some parents are vicious. Some
parents are sadistic. Some parents brutally
beat, rape, torture, and murder their children.
Those cases get intensive public and
media attention -- as they should.
But the typical foster child was not taken
from a parent like that. Such cases represent a
tiny fraction of the child protective services
caseload.
Out of every 100 children investigated as
possible victims of abuse, four are
“substantiated” victims of all forms of physical
abuse, from the most minor to the most severe,
about two more are victims of sexual abuse.
Many of the rest are false allegations or cases in
which a family's poverty has been confused with
neglect.
1
Far more common than a child who
comes into care because he was beaten are
children who come into foster care because the
foodstamps ran out or because an illness went
untreated after parents were kicked off Medicaid
or because a single mother trying to stay off
welfare could not provide adequate supervision
while she worked. Indeed, the former director of
intake for child protective services in Denver,
Colorado acknowledges that some children are
taken just because their parents are down on
their luck, out of work, or unable to provide
adequate shelter.
2
Three separate studies since 1996
have found that 30 percent of America’s foster
children could be safely in their own homes right
now, if their birth parents had safe, affordable
housing.
3
A fourth study found that “in terms of
reunification, even substance abuse is not as
important a factor as income or housing in
determining whether children will remain with
their families.”
4
A study of "boarder babies" -- children
who spend months in hospitals, found that the
biggest single factor causing their forced hospital
stays was lack of housing.
5
Families struggling to keep their
children out of foster care are stymied by two
major problems: homelessness and low public
assistance grants, according to two New York
City studies.
6
A study of "lack of supervision" cases
in New York City found that in 52 percent of the
cases studied, the service needed most was
what one might expect -- day care or
babysitting.
9
But the "service" offered most often
was foster care.
Courts in New York City and Illinois
have found that families are repeatedly kept
apart solely because they lack decent housing.
10
In Genesee County, Michigan, which
includes Flint, from 2000 to 2003, the foster-care
population doubled – and even the head of the
county child welfare office said one of the main
reasons is they’re removing children from
women forced to leave their children with
unsuitable caretakers while they go to jobs they
must take under the state’s welfare laws.
11
In California, homeless children were
given emergency shelter only on condition that
they be separated from their parents, until a
successful lawsuit put an end to the practice.
12
The National Commission on
Children found that children often are
removed from their families "prematurely or
unnecessarily" because federal aid formulas
give states "a strong financial incentive" to
do so rather than provide services to keep
families together.
13
And across the country, several people
who have run child welfare systems have
acknowledged that their own systems take away
too many children.
In Washington D.C., where the foster
care system was run for several years by the
federal courts, the first receiver named by the
court to run the agency found that between onethird and one-half of D.C.'s foster children could
be returned to their parents immediately -- if they
just had a decent place to live.
14
A former District Administrator in
Broward County Florida estimated that 35
percent of the children in that county’s foster
care system could have remained safely in their
own homes had the right kinds of help been
provided.
15
And the former head of one of the
nation’s largest child welfare systems, Los
Angeles County’s put the figure at up to 50
percent.
16
Compounding the problem: Child
welfare workers sometimes are in denial about
the importance of providing concrete help to
families. A study of cases in Milwaukee County,
Wis. found that housing problems were a key
cause of removal and a key barrier to
reunification. But The researchers write that
while birth parents “see housing as a major
source of concern …child welfare workers are
less attentive to this concern.”
They continue:
“Perhaps child welfare workers in
Milwaukee are more focused on parental
functioning and less attentive to concrete needs
such as housing because of the principles
guiding agency practice and the workers’
education and training. Alternatively workers …
may tend to ignore housing as a problem rather
than deal with the cognitive dissonance caused
by the recognition that they cannot help their
clients with this important need.”
17
Just as not every parent is sadistic, not
every parent is blameless, either. There is the
broad range of cases in-between the extremes --
cases where a parent may well be partly to
blame, but where intervening to preserve the
family is still the best way to protect the child.
Read More:
ISSUE PAPERS on Family Preservation, Foster Care and Reasonable Efforts « National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
ISSUE PAPERS on Family Preservation, Foster Care and Reasonable Efforts « National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
ISSUE PAPERS on Family Preservation, Foster Care and Reasonable Efforts
Introduction
1. Foster Care vs. Family Preservation: The Track Record on Safety
2. Foster Care Panics
3. They “Erred on the Side of the Child” — Case Histories
4. Emotional Abuse
5. Who is in “The System”
6. Child Abuse and Poverty
7. Child Welfare and Race
8. The Real Reasons for Child Abuse Deaths
9. The Unreasonable Assault on “Reasonable Efforts”
10. What is “Family Preservation?”
11. Does Family Preservation Work?
12. Financial Incentives
13. Family Preservation and Substance Abuse
14. Family Preservation and Adoption
15. Just Say No to the Orphanage
Click on the above link to go into all these link's
ISSUE PAPERS on Family Preservation, Foster Care and Reasonable Efforts
Introduction
1. Foster Care vs. Family Preservation: The Track Record on Safety
2. Foster Care Panics
3. They “Erred on the Side of the Child” — Case Histories
4. Emotional Abuse
5. Who is in “The System”
6. Child Abuse and Poverty
7. Child Welfare and Race
8. The Real Reasons for Child Abuse Deaths
9. The Unreasonable Assault on “Reasonable Efforts”
10. What is “Family Preservation?”
11. Does Family Preservation Work?
12. Financial Incentives
13. Family Preservation and Substance Abuse
14. Family Preservation and Adoption
15. Just Say No to the Orphanage
Click on the above link to go into all these link's
Ky. one of worst for child welfare - So is NH!
Bowling Green Daily News
In the face of poverty and other economic woes, Kentucky is one of the worst states in the nation when it comes to children’s health, according to a recent study.
Kentucky ranks 41st in the country for overall child well-being, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2011 Kids Count Data Book. The foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization devoted to child issues and policies.
In the face of poverty and other economic woes, Kentucky is one of the worst states in the nation when it comes to children’s health, according to a recent study.
Kentucky ranks 41st in the country for overall child well-being, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2011 Kids Count Data Book. The foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization devoted to child issues and policies.
Pregnant woman told baby was alive two weeks after being told she had suffered a miscarriage
Pregnant woman told baby was alive two weeks after being told she had suffered a miscarriage - Telegraph:
A pregnant woman who was advised to have a termination after an NHS ultrasound indicated she had suffered a miscarriage only found out her baby was still alive after requesting another scan.
Note: Sounds a lot like the idiocy of the Hospital where my daughter had her baby. Morphine given in labor spill's into the baby! Duh! The Judge was as stupid as the hospital!
A pregnant woman who was advised to have a termination after an NHS ultrasound indicated she had suffered a miscarriage only found out her baby was still alive after requesting another scan.
Note: Sounds a lot like the idiocy of the Hospital where my daughter had her baby. Morphine given in labor spill's into the baby! Duh! The Judge was as stupid as the hospital!
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