Jennifer Chrisler: Family Values vs. Valuing Families:
November is National Adoption Awareness Month. Now, with the election behind us, it is time for us to stop focusing on the political rhetoric of family values and work towards laws and policies that truly value families -- especially those created through adoption.
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"Now, with the election behind us, it is time for us to stop focusing on the political rhetoric of family values and work towards laws and policies that truly value families -- especially those created through adoption."
This is the problem. Politicians should be working toward laws and policies that truly value BIOLOGICAL families. Family preservation, Not those created through adoption. More emphasis needs to be on keeping families together. Not tearing them apart!
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
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Family court helps families get on their feet
SoMdNews.com: Family court helps families get on their feet:
Recovery, not incarceration, is desired outcome
Although problems like drug addiction and having a child taken away by the state might seem insurmountable, Charles County families now have a solution that allows them to better themselves and rebuild a solid family unit.
Friday, November 9, 2012
Texas official over CPS quits after Abilene investigation
Texas official over CPS quits after Abilene investigation - Houston Chronicle:
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services commissioner Howard Baldwin resigned Thursday just weeks after Abilene detectives seized files from local Child Protective Services workers as part of a criminal investigation into possible evidence tampering and cover-ups in the death of a 22-month-old toddler.
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services commissioner Howard Baldwin resigned Thursday just weeks after Abilene detectives seized files from local Child Protective Services workers as part of a criminal investigation into possible evidence tampering and cover-ups in the death of a 22-month-old toddler.
Exclusive: 17-Year-Old Foster Care Girl Speaks About Affair With DCF Worker
Exclusive: 17-Year-Old Foster Care Girl Speaks About Affair With DCF Worker « CBS Miami:
MIAMI (CBS4) – An audio taped police interview with the 17 year old foster girl at the center of sex scandal involving a fired DCF investigator reveals he offered to pay her $1000 dollars to keep her mouth shut about their affair.
MIAMI (CBS4) – An audio taped police interview with the 17 year old foster girl at the center of sex scandal involving a fired DCF investigator reveals he offered to pay her $1000 dollars to keep her mouth shut about their affair.
Life After TPR New laws give some families a second chance.
Rise Magazine - By and For Parents in the Child Welfare System:
Under federal law, parents typically have only 15 months to prove that they can safely reunify with their children. For parents struggling with addiction, that’s a short time to break the cycle of relapse and recovery. Yet research shows that children in foster care do better when they have parents or other biological family members in their lives. Here, LaShanda Taylor, associate professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia’s David A. Clarke School of Law, describes how some states are making it easier for parents and children to stay connected despite termination of parental rights (TPR).
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Under federal law, parents typically have only 15 months to prove that they can safely reunify with their children. For parents struggling with addiction, that’s a short time to break the cycle of relapse and recovery. Yet research shows that children in foster care do better when they have parents or other biological family members in their lives. Here, LaShanda Taylor, associate professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia’s David A. Clarke School of Law, describes how some states are making it easier for parents and children to stay connected despite termination of parental rights (TPR).
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Man indicted in child's death on Indian reservation
Man indicted in child's death on Indian reservation | Michigan news | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
MT. PLEASANT — A grand jury indicted a central Michigan man Wednesday in the death of a 4-year-old boy, more than four months after the child's badly burned remains were discovered outside the victim's house.
MT. PLEASANT — A grand jury indicted a central Michigan man Wednesday in the death of a 4-year-old boy, more than four months after the child's badly burned remains were discovered outside the victim's house.
Ask the GAL: Law strictly governs psychotropic medications for foster children
Ask the GAL: Law strictly governs psychotropic medications for foster children | Ask the GAL | Bradenton Herald:
Q: How many abused, abandoned, or neglected children in dependency are taking psychotropic medications?
Since when?
Q: How many abused, abandoned, or neglected children in dependency are taking psychotropic medications?
Since when?
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