Terre Haute Foster Parents Arrested for Neglect

Terre Haute Foster Parents Arrested for Neglect:

Five Terre Haute children spent the holiday weekend in the custody of the Department of Child Services, after their parents were arrested.

MIAMI: Prosecutor: Fla. woman smothered foster child

MIAMI: Prosecutor: Fla. woman smothered foster child - Florida Wires - MiamiHerald.com:

MIAMI -- A South Florida prosecutor says a woman smothered foster child Rilya Wilson a decade ago after months of abuse and elaborately covered up her disappearance until confessing to fellow jail inmates.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/26/3113847/openings-set-in-fla-missing-girl.html#storylink=cpy

DSS, child protective services will be audited in light of safety concerns

DSS, child protective services will be audited in light of safety concerns – The Post and Courier:

Reports of children starved to death, sexually abused for months and dying of treatable illness prompted a local legislator Monday to call for an audit of the state Department of Social Services.

Murder trial starts in Fla. foster child case

Murder trial starts in Fla. foster child case | Nation & World | The Seattle Times:

The foster parent of 4-year-old Rilya Wilson abused the girl for months before finally smothering her, and then lied to child welfare workers who failed to discover the girl had been missing for more than a year, a prosecutor said Monday.

CPS Targets Disabled Parents - Baby LK Report For November 25th

You're right LK! They definitely DO Target Disabled Parent's! Pure Fact!

Addiction and the Americans with Disabilities Act

Addiction and the Americans with Disabilities Act

On July 26, 1990, the U.S. Congress enacted the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which was intended as
a broad, national, civil rights–oriented mandate “for the elimination of discrimination against individuals with
disabilities,” both physical and mental. ADA protection is extended, in limited form, to those with addiction
disorders. However, many addicted individuals are denied ADA protection because of exclusionary criteria in the
ADA itself and because of increasingly restrictive interpretations of the ADA in recent cases. The benefit to the
addicted persons, and to the larger society, is lost when unfair discriminatory practices preclude employment of
otherwise qualified, though stigmatized, individuals. The ADA currently falls short, in many respects, of preventing
such discrimination against those with addictions.


Persons with a diagnosis of alcohol dependence are protected,
but those with drug dependence are protected only if they are
in treatment or have completed a treatment program, and are
not “currently” using illegal drugs    

Note: So according to ADA guidelines, doesn't that make it ILLEGAL to steal a child from a recovering addict? An addict forced out of treatment by the Court?

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Disabled parents face bias, loss of kids

Report: Disabled parents face bias, loss of kids | masslive.com:

Millions of Americans with disabilities have gained innumerable rights and opportunities since Congress passed landmark legislation on their behalf in 1990. And yet advocates say barriers and bias still abound when it comes to one basic human right: To be a parent.

Such cases are found nationwide, according to a new report by the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency. The 445-page document is viewed by the disability-rights community as by far the most comprehensive ever on the topic — simultaneously an encyclopedic accounting of the status quo and an emotional plea for change.
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Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children

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