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[laogaiguk]

[cosmicgirlie]

What a sad story but an all too familiar one.

There is an inquiry about to occur as a result of one of the cases here in Ontario around foster care placements. Actually we've had a few cases with children being severly hurt by people who are not their biological parents. Blackstock, Ontario knows all too well about how some adoptive kids were treated after finding them locked in cages. They're lucky though, they have their lives. Interesting kids, one came to the London facility I was working at. Jeffrey Baldwin wasn't so lucky. He died while in the care of his grandparents. When they found him he was only 19lbs. No 6 year old or 6 month old for that matter weights 19lbs.

What I'm trying to say is it still makes me sick to my stomach that in this day and age child protective agencies are not checking into the background of foster/adoptive parents. Furthermore I'm constantly questioning the integrity of the social workers in these child protective agencies. I can't tell you how many times I've run up against some moronic social worker

I think I shall leave now before I go on further about the screwed up social services.

[happeningthang]

If I'm ever in a situation where a child under my care is missing , there is
NO WAY IN HELL I will ever have a news conference and plead for help.

Everytime that happens it's like saying, "I did it".

[formerflautist]

My parents were foster parents for a little while. They weren't doing it for the money but a lot of people do. I had a friend whose aunt was a foster parent. The aunt was mad one day because one of the children in her home was taken away (for being violent) because she would lose the income. Another story I heard is of a woman who had three foster kids in her home. But she found out that she could get more money by having handicapped children in her home. So away went her three foster kids and in came the handicapped children. The sad thing is the CPS cannot be everywhere. There are so many kids in need and not enough people to care for them. And there are too many people who just aren't capable of being parents but still have children.

[laogaiguk]

My family being a wonderful foster family, I know of all the foster family horror stories that give many a bad name. There are some bad ones, and there are even more apathetic ones.
(And damn straight it was wonderful, we lived in one of the nicest areas, in a huge house so at most were two kids to a room, when we went out, the kids went out, always!. If my parents didn't have the money to take everyone to McDonald's or a movie, we just didn't go, or went to the park instead. My mother would start buying toys in august, so even the meager Christmas bonus for the children would go far, though she would always have to throw in a bit more money. Same for back to school clothes and things.) Sorry, I wanted to put that to show foster families are not all bad. Many are very good.

I could go on and on about social services for pages and pages. But many older social workers are still pretty good, having got into it for what it is, helping people. The new brand, usually under 30, do it as a 9-5 job, competely separate themselves from the job (you have to somewhat, but not completely. It would be like a teacher not giving a damn if the children passed or failed) and suck crap with their new ideas that come from the liberal arts faculties in unis. Heck, many are doing it for the same reasons people are here. It's just a buffer job to pay off loans until they get the job they want.

... I better stop, lunch is soon.

[tzechuk]

OMG... this is so sad...

My heart aches every time I read something like this.

Poor, poor, poor child.