Feds' foster care takeover could prompt reform - Watchdog.org:
Most of Texas’ elected statewide officials have a weakness for posturing on superficial family issues, but their instincts are going to be tested this year on a question that couldn’t get any realer: when does the state get to decide that a family should no longer exist as a family?
Richard Wexler, founder of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, said that the state simply shouldn’t be removing so many children from their homes.
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
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Court: DCF right to reject Fitchburg foster parents who spanked
Court: DCF right to reject Fitchburg foster parents who spanked - Lowell Sun Online:
BOSTON -- The state's highest court on Monday upheld the Department of Children and Families' 2013 decision to deny the application of potential foster parents because of their use of corporal punishment as a form of discipline in their home.
BOSTON -- The state's highest court on Monday upheld the Department of Children and Families' 2013 decision to deny the application of potential foster parents because of their use of corporal punishment as a form of discipline in their home.
Orange County, family reach $250K settlement
Orange County, family reach $250K settlement - News - recordonline.com - Middletown, NY:
GOSHEN — Orange County has reached a $250,000 settlement with the parents of a 5-year-old girl who was illegally questioned by Child Protective Services following secondhand accusations of sexual abuse, according to a joint statement by the county and the family's attorneys.
GOSHEN — Orange County has reached a $250,000 settlement with the parents of a 5-year-old girl who was illegally questioned by Child Protective Services following secondhand accusations of sexual abuse, according to a joint statement by the county and the family's attorneys.
Lawsuit: Toddlers sexually assaulted while in Hancock DHS custody
Lawsuit: Toddlers sexually assaulted while in Hancock DHS custody | SunHerald:
HANCOCK COUNTY -- A Hancock County woman says her two children, ages 1 and 2, were sexually assaulted and contracted gonorrhea while they were in the custody of the Hancock County Department of Human Services, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court.
HANCOCK COUNTY -- A Hancock County woman says her two children, ages 1 and 2, were sexually assaulted and contracted gonorrhea while they were in the custody of the Hancock County Department of Human Services, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court.
Monday, January 4, 2016
Former foster parent, teacher on trial
Former foster parent, teacher on trial:
CHAMBERSBURG - A Greene Township man and former Gettysburg-area teacher will go to trial Tuesday on allegations he sexually abused a young boy.
CHAMBERSBURG - A Greene Township man and former Gettysburg-area teacher will go to trial Tuesday on allegations he sexually abused a young boy.
Spotlight on ‘Drugging Our Kids’ pays off
Spotlight on ‘Drugging Our Kids’ pays off:
It’s often wishful thinking that shining a light on something that’s wrong will be enough to make it stop. But sometimes, if the problem is bad enough and the evidence is clearly presented, it actually happens.
More Lehigh Valley foster kids finding homes with kin
More Lehigh Valley foster kids finding homes with kin - The Morning Call:
When the last of her five children reached adulthood, Virginia Maldonado thought the days of diapers and formula were behind her. Then, her phone rang.It was a caseworker from the Lehigh County Office of Children & Youth Services, telling her that her 19-year-old daughter, from whom she was estranged, had given birth to a baby boy and he was being placed in a foster home.
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