Using Facebook to connect foster care children with relatives

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Facebook has opened up a new world of experiments for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.
The state is using the social networking site as a tool in finding the relatives of children in foster care.

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Hello Kitty Bubble Gun Gets Kindergartner Suspended

Hello Kitty Bubble Gun Gets Kindergartner Suspended:

When I was kid, we often played cowboys and Indians or cops and robbers, where we were always shooting at each other with our toy cap guns or pointing fingers.  When I was in high school, it was common for a number of students to have a gun rack in their trucks and one or two rifles in the gun rack.  No one thought anything about it, nor do I ever recall any reports of stolen guns.

Today, too many Americans are getting paranoid about anything to do with guns.  After the tragedy of Sandy Hook, teachers and school administrators across the nation have become over reactive to kids being kids.

It was reported earlier that a Maryland 6 year old student had been suspended for pointing his finger at another student and acting like he was shooting him.  A 3 year old deaf boy was told that he had to change his sign language sign for his name, Hunter, because it resembled a gun.

In the latest report of scholastic paranoia, a five year old girl in Pennsylvania has been suspended for threatening to shoot another kindergartner with her Hello Kitty Bubble Gun.  The toy generates a flow of soapy bubbles and is totally harmless, but school officials say that her actions were against their no tolerance policy.

Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/01/hello-kitty-bubble-gun-gets-kindergartner-suspended/#ixzz2IdMsEa7s

Juvenile Court Scam

Juvenile Court Scam:

Some might think that this cannot be possible. Our legal system is the greatest in the world. Wrong! It was at one time but in the last 20 years it has become corrupt and beyond repair and is nothing more than a band of lawless criminals plundering the people. First, it is important to understand that our legal system is all about civil law or the law of the contract. Secondly, it is important to know that our courts no longer operate with any judicial authority. This makes all of our courts nothing more than private commercial corporations hiding behind a judicial false front. They look like counts, they act like courts but they are in reality only an act to make us think they are a judicial court with power to get as much money out of the people as possible. If you do not believe this go to Dunn and Bradstreet and look up your superior court and find that it is a commercial corporation. 

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CPS Happily Destroying One Family At A Time - Baby LK Report For January

Solutions to Broken Adoptions May Lie in Gray Areas

Solutions to Broken Adoptions May Lie in Gray Areas - CityLimits.org:

While there's disagreement among child welfare officials and advocates about all we can do to prevent broken adoptions, there is consensus on a few common-sense steps.

This is the fourth and final chapter in our series about broken adoptions—cases in which a child adopted out of the foster-care system returns to that system or otherwise leaves the family that adopted them. 

For parent advocates, the answer to the problem of broken adoptions is clear: More needs to be done to keep families together. 

It's not just about investing more in preventive services, executive director of the Child Welfare Organizing Project (CWOP), says, but about recognizing that "in the most fundamental of ways," we as a society are "not doing enough to build communities that are conducive to healthy family life…[including] access to living wage employment, decent affordable housing, safe schools, health care. This is why families fall apart," says Arsham.

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Adoption: From an Option to a Mandate

Adoption: From an Option to a Mandate - CityLimits.org:

Adoption is a good outcome for many children in foster care. But not every adoptive parent-child combination is meant to be.
This is the third chapter in our series about broken adoptions—cases in which a child adopted out of the foster-care system returns to that system or otherwise leaves the family that adopted them.

One Foster Child's Choice? Not To Be Adopted

One Foster Child's Choice? Not To Be Adopted - CityLimits.org:

S.D. held out hope that her parents would bring her home. That never happened. But avoiding adoption was her choice—and it was a wise one, her lawyer says.

This is a sidebar to our series about broken adoptions—cases in which a child adopted out of the foster-care system returns to that system or otherwise leaves the family that adopted them.

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