DCYF report: Staff burnout, turnover rate reaches all-time high

DCYF report: Staff burnout, turnover rate reaches all-time high | Health - WMUR Home:

DCYF currently has 176 child protection service workers, with a turnover rate around 50 percent in the past two years.The report states that staffing is inadequate and burnout is at an all-time high.

How Smart Do You Have to Be to Raise a Child?

How Smart Do You Have to Be to Raise a Child? -- The Cut:

The state said a 19-year-old with an intellectual disability wasn’t equipped to look after her baby and whisked the newborn off to another family just after birth—a decision the mother was ready to fight. But how smart do you have to be to raise a child?

Banning spankings at home will punish good parents – church

Banning spankings at home will punish good parents – church | City Press:

Good parents would end up in prison if legislative amendments go ahead prohibiting children from being spanked at home.

Foster care needs overhaul: Walker dragging ball and chain in Sarnia-Ottawa walk to press for overhaul of foster care system

Foster care needs overhaul: Walker | Peterborough Examiner:

 "A man who grew up in foster care is walking more than 750 kilometres with nearly 40 pounds shackled to his ankle to shine light on a system that he said is failing kids.

Jessie McVicar was raised in foster care in Alberta from the time he was nine years old."

Georgia failed to protect girl who died in foster care

Georgia failed to protect girl who died in foster care | www.ajc.com:

Georgia’s child protection agency removed 2-year-old Laila Marie Daniel from her troubled mother and placed her in foster care.That is among the state’s strongest exercises of power over an individual: to take your kids away.

Robert 'LaVoy' Finicum, killed in Oregon shooting, was Arizona foster parent and rancher

Robert 'LaVoy' Finicum, killed in Oregon shooting, was Arizona foster parent and rancher | OregonLive.com:

Robert "LaVoy" Finicum was killed in a shootout Tuesday while traveling from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to John Day for a public meeting, sources have told The Oregonian/OregonLive.

Grinning on her way to prison: Foster mother is jailed for six years for shaking toddler to death

Foster mother Wendy Hardy jailed for 6 years for shaking toddler to death | Daily Mail Online:

Wendy Hardy, 46, assaulted Harry Aspley just months after taking him in

Baby was struggling to eat without vomiting when Hardy flew into a rage

Shook him so violently 23-month-old was left with massive brain injuries

Dumped him back in his cot and did nothing until her husband came home

Pleaded guilty to manslaughter and wrongly claiming £27,000 in foster fees

A smiling foster mother has been jailed for more than six years after shaking a 23-month-old baby to death and blowing £27,000 of ill-gotten child care fees on a holiday and car.