DCYF gets more funding, staffing | Local News - WMUR Home:
The last time the state asked the Legislature for more caseworkers was in 2004. But a recent audit of the Division of Children, Youth and Families found that it is understaffed and overworked, and suffers from a lack of resources.
Comment: What good would 24/7 staffing have done in the case of Brielle Gage when DCYF and the Family Court sent Brielle and her siblings home to their Mother while Criminal Child Abuse charges were pending? Her Mother hadn't even gone to trial on the charges. Other parents criminal abuse charges are dropped, but STILL never see their children again.
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, March 29, 2016
Friday, March 25, 2016
Native family was ‘part of Lexi’s life’
Native family was ‘part of Lexi’s life’:
Lexi, the 6-year-old girl removed from the home of her Santa Clarita foster family Monday, is home with her biological Choctaw family in Utah, capping a five-year court battle, a spokesman for the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma said Wednesday.
Lawmakers Move Forth to Reform State Foster Care System
Lawmakers Move Forth to Reform State Foster Care System:
AUSTIN—It is full steam ahead when it comes to reforming Texas' foster care system.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the state's attempt to slow those reforms earlier this week. It also allowed a lower court judge to appoint two child welfare advocates called Special Masters who will oversee the process.
AUSTIN—It is full steam ahead when it comes to reforming Texas' foster care system.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the state's attempt to slow those reforms earlier this week. It also allowed a lower court judge to appoint two child welfare advocates called Special Masters who will oversee the process.
Detert adoption bill becomes law
Detert adoption bill becomes law | March 23, 2016 | Zac Anderson | HT Politics:
The bill gives judges the discretion to decide who is best fit to adopt a child — such as a foster family — in certain instances instead of automatically honoring a birth parent’s wishes. Biological parents previously had almost total control over adoptions, even when they had lost parental rights because of abuse or neglect, or crimes such as murdering a spouse.
It doesn't have to be Law in NH. This is what the Family Court Judges get away with every day!
The bill gives judges the discretion to decide who is best fit to adopt a child — such as a foster family — in certain instances instead of automatically honoring a birth parent’s wishes. Biological parents previously had almost total control over adoptions, even when they had lost parental rights because of abuse or neglect, or crimes such as murdering a spouse.
It doesn't have to be Law in NH. This is what the Family Court Judges get away with every day!
Why are so many Vt. child abuse cases dropped?
Why are so many Vt. child abuse cases dropped? - WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-:
ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. -When Summer Draper was just 3 weeks old, she spent three days in the hospital. Her mouth was bleeding and she had bruises on her upper body.
ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. -When Summer Draper was just 3 weeks old, she spent three days in the hospital. Her mouth was bleeding and she had bruises on her upper body.
Earlier this week, a Caledonia County Court found the baby's dad guilty of aggravated domestic assault. A doctor concluded Allen Draper, 28, caused the injuries during a rough feeding by jamming a bottle in the baby's mouth. The Hardwick father also confessed to squeezing and shaking the little girl.
Antidepressants taken during pregnancy increase risk of autism by 87 percent
Antidepressants taken during pregnancy increase risk of autism by 87 percent:
Researchers came to their conclusion after reviewing data from the outcomes of 145,456 pregnancies.
The study published today in JAMA Pediatrics used data from the Quebec Pregnancy Cohort and studied 145,456 children between the time of their conception up to age ten. The study accounted for a number of other factors that have known links to autism, including genetic predisposition to autism (i.e., a family history of it), maternal age, depression itself, and certain socio-economic factors such as being exposed to poverty. Exposure to antidepressants was defined as the mother having had one or more prescription for antidepressants filled during the second or third trimester of the pregnancy.
Researchers came to their conclusion after reviewing data from the outcomes of 145,456 pregnancies.
The study published today in JAMA Pediatrics used data from the Quebec Pregnancy Cohort and studied 145,456 children between the time of their conception up to age ten. The study accounted for a number of other factors that have known links to autism, including genetic predisposition to autism (i.e., a family history of it), maternal age, depression itself, and certain socio-economic factors such as being exposed to poverty. Exposure to antidepressants was defined as the mother having had one or more prescription for antidepressants filled during the second or third trimester of the pregnancy.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
It's Time for These Foster Parents to Let Their Little Girl Go
It's Time for These Foster Parents to Let Their Little Girl Go | The Stir:
A foster family fighting to hold on to 6-year-old Lexi, whom they've loved as their own for four years, made a very emotional plea to the public to help in their fight to keep her. And while it's heartbreaking to watch a family ripped apart, as a fellow foster parent, I wish they would have handled things differently -- for Lexi's sake.
A foster family fighting to hold on to 6-year-old Lexi, whom they've loved as their own for four years, made a very emotional plea to the public to help in their fight to keep her. And while it's heartbreaking to watch a family ripped apart, as a fellow foster parent, I wish they would have handled things differently -- for Lexi's sake.
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