Statistics suggest bleak futures for children who grow up in foster care

Statistics suggest bleak futures for children who grow up in foster care | Amarillo Globe-News:

Statistics show the future bodes poorly for many of the children in the foster care system, a top official with Arrow Child and Family Ministries said. Arrow, an international child-placement agency, claims the statistics describe a “national foster care crisis.”
As of April, there were 349 children from Randall and Potter counties in foster care.

According to national statistics provided by Arrow, 40 to 50 percent of those children will never complete high school. Sixty-six percent of them will be homeless, go to jail or die within one year of leaving the foster care system at 18.

Arrow also said 80 percent of the prison population once was in foster care, and that girls in foster care are 600 percent more likely than the general population to become pregnant before the age of 21.

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Foster Care Abuse Claims

Foster Care Abuse Claims:

The report finds too many abused children are being abused again in state custody. Even DCF says it can do better.

The state audit shows nine out of every 100 abused kids get abused again when they're put in foster care. The report says the numbers of so-called "re-abuse cases" exceed the state's own goal of no more than seven percent, and are well above the national standard of six percent.

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Four charged with running foster child prostitution ring

Four charged with running foster child prostitution ring - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com:

Police have busted a ring that allegedly recruited underage girls in the care of the state to work as prostitutes.

Police and prosecutors arrested four alleged pimps Monday morning as part of an ongoing investigation into a ring of human traffickers who preyed on abused and neglected children in foster care.

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Child Support, Child Custody & Manhattan Family Courts Equals Criminals, Extortion etc..

Govt's Secret Family Courts - Bill Maloney

Arrogance of the Family Court

Eagle Forum Blog: Arrogance of the Family Court:

In previous broadcasts, I've told you about many outrageous decisions of the family courts. The people who want to get the government out of our private lives should turn their attention to the arrogance of family court judges, because that's where the most intrusive interferences with our private lives is taking place. In family courts, divorced parents have no parental rights over their own children; the judges think they can make all decisions. Parents who divorce may think they are just divorcing from each other, but in fact they are divorcing from their own children, and judges believe they can decide everything about the children. Their decisions are based on their own biases, but they wrap their decisions in a mantra called "the best interest of the child." The phrase "the best interest of thechild" originally meant that parents decided what is the child's best interest. But now judges instead of parents are making those decisions.


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Rights of the Child News: Child Victims of Torture

Rights of the Child News: Child Victims of Torture:

27/06/2012 – Despite the presence of humanitarian and human rights law protecting all people from torture, children continue to suffer the injustice of torture. Read More: