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Study: Big gaps in foster vs. traditional homes

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...al-homes_N.htm


FOSTER CARE VS. TRADITIONAL

Foster children tend to live in households that are poorer, less
educated and more crowded than the typical U.S. household with children.

Homes with foster care

Household income: $56,364

Household with at least 3 children: 50%

Parent with no high school diploma: 21%

Parent didn't work last year: 20%




Homes without foster care

Household income: $74,301

Household with at least 3 children: 21%

Parent with no high school diploma: 14%

Parent didn't work last year: 13%

Source: William O'Hare of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, based on Census
Bureau's 2006 American Community Survey



By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY
Children in foster care live in poorer, more crowded and less educated
homes than kids in other families, often taking them from one
disadvantaged environment into another, new research shows.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation study is the first to analyze 2006 Census
Bureau data, the most recent available, for a detailed look at foster
parents.

"The gaps were so pervasive," says demographer William O'Hare.

O'Hare finds foster households have a lower average income, $56,364,
than do all households with children, $74,301, even though they care for
more kids.

Half of foster households have three or more children compared with 21%
of all other households with that many. The study also finds foster
parents are more likely than others to be unemployed and lack a high
school diploma.

"Too often the foster care experience adds to the disadvantages these
children" have already endured, says O'Hare, noting that most kids are
placed in the foster system because of abuse or neglect.

About 510,000 children were in U.S. foster care in September 2006, the
most recent count provided by the Department of Health and Human
Services. Of those, 40% were white, 32% black and 19% Hispanic.

O'Hare's study adds a "unique" national perspective to other research
showing foster parents are, "in some instances, lower working class,"
says Fred Wulczyn, research fellow at the University of Chicago's Chapin
Hall Center for Children.

Wulczyn says many foster children come from poor families, and social
workers make an effort to keep them with relatives or at least in their
own community.

"There's a lot to be said for maintaining cultural ties," he says. He
adds, however, that when the state takes responsibility for children, it
should try to improve their circumstances, by offering help to
struggling foster parents or by seeking parents with greater resources.

O'Hare's findings focus mostly on children in non-relative family care,
which accounts for about half of all foster kids. Others live with
relatives or, in the case of the 464 children removed from a polygamist
sect's ranch in Texas last month, in institutions or group homes.

Foster parents related to the kids in their care are even more likely
than other foster parents to be poor, single and older, because many of
them are grandparents, says Rob Geen, vice president for public policy
at Child Trends, a non-partisan research center.

He says many people who become foster parents have been personally
touched by foster care.

"They're not in it for the money," says Geen, adding they often dig into
their pockets to cover the full costs of caring for the children.









An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and
the Child Protection "INDUSTRY"

Child Protective Services Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of CPS.

every parent should read the free handbook from
connecticut dcf watch...

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS

Perpetrators of Maltreatment

Physical Abuse CPS/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13
Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12
Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5

Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.

THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST

Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally
guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other
agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central
intelligence agency wiretaping programs…

THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia

http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/...s.php?filter=6

This is Child Protection?
By Gregory A. Hession, J.D.

http://www.jbs.org/node/4632

Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer."

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...nion-rightrail

FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILU. A Brief Analysis of the Casey
Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler

http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc

HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN

http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html

Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness
DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore Massachusetts News

http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/...May/mayds4.htm

A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster ca

30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children.
27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated
33% were receiving public assistance
37% had not finished high school
2% receive a college degree
50% were unemployed

Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children
not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems,
including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and
impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of
the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various
studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care
tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school
compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their
education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment
than the general population.
*Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support

80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system.

The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn
of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child
psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should
just be blown up.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991

Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America’s
foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent housing.

This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would
have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in
the first place.

Front-page story in USA Today.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...m?csp=34#Close

Read the studies online.

Casey "alumni" study: "Improving Family Foster Ca Findings from the
Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study,"

http://www.casey.org/Resources/Publi...lumniStudy.htm

MIT study: "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects
of Foster Care,"

http://www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fo...arch07_aer.pdf

Texas comptroller's "Forgotten Children" reports:

www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren

The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system
for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than
walking wreckage...

CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY
GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER
AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS....

CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...

BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...
 




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