Brewer signs bill making changes at CPS into law:
Gov. Jan Brewer signed legislation Wednesday requiring the state’s child-welfare agency to create a new system for handling abuse and neglect reports and vetoed a measure that would have loosened licensing requirements for foster parents while making it easier for them to adopt foster kids.
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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
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Obama's parental initiative may do more harm than good
Obama's parental initiative may do more harm than good - The Hill's Congress Blog:
President Obama sometimes takes the opportunity on Father’s Day to draw attention to the problem of absent fathers. The president’s recently proposed FY’14 budget includes a new Child Support and Fatherhood Initiative. The initiative would require states to seek child custody and visitation orders in court for fathers who must pay child support to the state. The initiative’s goals are admirable. If fathers pay child support more regularly, childhood poverty may be reduced. If fathers participate more actively in their children’s lives, children may less often suffer poor educational performance, incarceration, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and other problems more often experienced by children raised by single parents. But the initiative’s proposed solution poses serious problems.
To understand how this works, all states require parents who receive Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) benefits for their children (often mothers) to sign over their rights to collect child support to the states. States then file child support cases against the children’s other parent (often fathers) to reimburse the state for TANF payments. The initiative would require states to seek visitation orders in every case where the state files for child support. It is hoped that this will encourage fathers to engage with their children, and thereby encourage fathers to pay child support.
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President Obama sometimes takes the opportunity on Father’s Day to draw attention to the problem of absent fathers. The president’s recently proposed FY’14 budget includes a new Child Support and Fatherhood Initiative. The initiative would require states to seek child custody and visitation orders in court for fathers who must pay child support to the state. The initiative’s goals are admirable. If fathers pay child support more regularly, childhood poverty may be reduced. If fathers participate more actively in their children’s lives, children may less often suffer poor educational performance, incarceration, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and other problems more often experienced by children raised by single parents. But the initiative’s proposed solution poses serious problems.
To understand how this works, all states require parents who receive Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) benefits for their children (often mothers) to sign over their rights to collect child support to the states. States then file child support cases against the children’s other parent (often fathers) to reimburse the state for TANF payments. The initiative would require states to seek visitation orders in every case where the state files for child support. It is hoped that this will encourage fathers to engage with their children, and thereby encourage fathers to pay child support.
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Parental Alienation and Hostile Aggressive Parenting Awareness - Emotional and mental child abuse
Parental Alienation and Hostile Aggressive Parenting Awareness - Emotional and mental child abuse:
Did You Know That...
Parental Alienation is a form of Child Abuse?
Parental alienation (or Hostile Aggressive Parenting) is a group of behaviors that are damaging to children's mental and emotional well-being, and can interfere with a relationship of a child and either parent. These behaviors most often accompany high conflict marriages, separation or divorce.
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Did You Know That...
Parental Alienation is a form of Child Abuse?
Parental alienation (or Hostile Aggressive Parenting) is a group of behaviors that are damaging to children's mental and emotional well-being, and can interfere with a relationship of a child and either parent. These behaviors most often accompany high conflict marriages, separation or divorce.
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Why are Michigan's child abuse rates so high?
Bridge Magazine: Why are Michigan's child abuse rates so high? | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
The number of abused and neglected Michigan children rose in recent years, during a period when state spending on abuse and neglect prevention plummeted.
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The number of abused and neglected Michigan children rose in recent years, during a period when state spending on abuse and neglect prevention plummeted.
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Fugitive Couple Sought in Murder of Adopted Toddler
Fugitive Couple Sought in Murder of Adopted Toddler | KTLA 5:
MAYWOOD, Calif. — An intensive hunt for a fugitive couple wanted in connection with the killing of their 2-year-old daughter in Mississippi is underway in Maywood and surrounding cities after the pair was allegedly spotted in the area selling cars, DVDs and puppies.
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MAYWOOD, Calif. — An intensive hunt for a fugitive couple wanted in connection with the killing of their 2-year-old daughter in Mississippi is underway in Maywood and surrounding cities after the pair was allegedly spotted in the area selling cars, DVDs and puppies.
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Length of stay in foster care for some children a problem
Length of stay in foster care for some children a problem : Politics:
A report by the revamped Foster Care Review Office issued Saturday showed fewer children were in out-of-home care as of April 1 and were spending less time in what is supposed to be temporary shelter care.
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A report by the revamped Foster Care Review Office issued Saturday showed fewer children were in out-of-home care as of April 1 and were spending less time in what is supposed to be temporary shelter care.
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Abused Kids Will Never Be Safe Until DCF Is Fixed
Abused Kids Will Never Be Safe Until DCF Is Fixed - Miami - News - Riptide 2.0:
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke speaks up for neglected, abused children.
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke speaks up for neglected, abused children.
It's time to abolish or overhaul the Florida Department of Children and Families, the worst government agency in the history of the state. Unless Gov. Rick Scott takes drastic action, more kids will end up dead because of DCF's incompetence. Their blood is on his hands.
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