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| One kinship care story from WA
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:18:20 -0400, "Sherman"
wrote: "Kane" wrote in message . com... On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:53:26 -0400, "Sherman" wrote: Here's a good story from Washington State regarding kinship ca http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...inship05m.html There is only one problem with this story, Sherman. It shoots in the ass so many of the claims and assumptions and innuendoes of various anti CPS posters here. Just the issue of federal audit "failures" for one. The article, top to bottom, is a litany of all the things about seeking kin and placing with them that CPS has NO control over. Even federal law, now it turns out, has created a major obsticle in the past. Now that is changing, but for the purpose of the audits, of course it told CPS not to waste worker time even looking for relatives, especially if they were NOT directly related to the child by blood. Thanks for the post. Sherman Kane Mahalo Pohaku, Yes, so many of the latest and greatest initiatives, laws, amendments, rules... have indeed complicated children's placement with kin. The statistics are only that of those kin which appear in the latest census report - not of actual and real numbers - just spitting out what their loose tallies appear to imply. See: http://www.census.gov/population/www...ndparents.html for the actual results and the AARP Grandparent's site at http://www.aarp.org/confacts/programs/grandraising.html which states that "6.3% of US children under 18 (4.5 million) live in grandparent-headed households (Census 2000)." Yes too, some life forms tend to exercise their senility in futile attempts at justifying their existence. It huli-huli all time pilikia anyways, brah. For the kapuna out there, this article demonstrates that there are two little ones who did not go through "the system" and the kin did not have to do battle for the pleasure of rescuing the little ones. Note that the grandfather is disabled. What would CPS, in their wisdom and within the construct of current laws do about the "fitness" of this couple to become, as the law now demands, foster parents? And, should they be determined to be "fit", would some of these anti-folks attack them with nonfounded nonsense accusations? The law now requires the kin to adopt the children also. No more guardianship under the ASFA and amendments. That is, in the event that the children become taken into the custody of the State. Note, da tutu helps with the problems that exist and is working towards helping others. Note further that some life forms who can only spew nonsense DO nothing at all, except that. "In her spare time, she leads two kinship-care support groups and volunteered on the state's Kinship Care Workgroup." Ahem, NOT as a paid person as some lolo hapu'u's here purport as the real kumu's hele on. In the instance of this particular 'ohana, cps was NOT involved. They did NOT intervene. At all. Their court issues were private and the children were not taken into custody by CPS. Another darned if they did and darned if they didn't situation. I can state this as I am aware of the actual legal circumstances of the keiki custody cases. Kelemana. Aia, many kupuna an' 'ohana same kind doing hele. Mo bettah CPS, mo bettah keiki, mo bettah everybody. Same kin' alii kupuna. Dakine kupuna an' 'ohana best. Malahini don't know nothin'. Hupo a hupo niu-head tink mo bettah CPS holo holo all ovah mauka - makai, waste money an' keiki's keiki-time. Niu nevah kokua. Too much Niu ala same lolo kûkae. Mahalo fo' kokua, nani Kelemana. A hui hou! nani aikâne. Pohaku Kane |
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