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Old January 24th 04, 08:37 PM
Kane
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Default Treating the problem

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:51:59 -0500, wexwimpy
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Treating the problem A Times Editorial Published January 20, 2004
More than half of all Florida parents accused of abusing or

neglecting
their children are hooked on drugs or alcohol. Yet only a handful

ever
receive treatment, and even fewer complete it. State leaders need to
get serious about giving substance-abusing parents real help in
kicking their habits. Until they do, Florida won't reduce the
incidence of child abuse in a sustained way.
In 39 child abuse and neglect cases recently reviewed by the staff of
the Florida Senate Children and Families Committee, 23 involved a
parent on drugs. Only seven of those parents were admitted for drug
treatment, and just three successfully finished the program. As in
most substance-abuse cases, Department of Children and Families
caseworkers took longer than usual in deciding whether to reunify
these families. In the end, they did so a mere 17 percent of the time
- compared with 64 percent when drugs were not an issue.
State leaders aren't oblivious to the problem, but their efforts to
address it have been halfhearted. The Legislature has spent a modest
sum on expanding treatment, including $5-million for "family
intervention specialists" in each DCF district to work with
substance-abusing parents. But the money has met only a fraction of
the need. Committee staff found that even the specialists spend too
much of their limited time and money documenting a parent's drug

habit
(through urinalysis testing), rather than helping the parent break

it.
Years after being told by lawmakers to do so, DCF still does not

track
and evaluate its services for substance-abusing parents.
"[T]he significant gap between the numbers of parents identified as
needing substance abuse services and the number of parents

actually...
receiving the treatment indicates that further improvements are

needed
in order to achieve better outcomes for children and families with
substance abuse issues," the staff concluded in November.
Substance-abusing parents, especially those who mistreat or neglect
their children, aren't a sympathetic group. But there are many

reasons
beyond sympathy to help these parents get back on track. With
treatment, parents stand a better chance of maintaining jobs and
regaining their confidence along with custody of their children.
Without it, their children are likely to stay in foster care - at
taxpayers' expense - where their chances of growing into healthy and
productive adults decline dramatically

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/20/Op..._problem.shtml


This was standard child welfare practice pre 1990, which even CAPTA,
during that time, failed to change...because it had no teeth.

Just for reference so you understand some of the child welfare laws in
place:

http://www.cwresource.org/hotTopics/asfa/app4.htm

For those who actually care about the truth, a search on any of the
bills and laws listed will show clearly how the phony balogna "CPS
reformers" have constantly lied in these ngs on many related subjects.

Prior to 1997 the failure to have laws to stop the nonsense in place
resulted in Mommy Druggist, and Daddy Drunkedist, partying their
children's childhoods away with the kids in state custody and the
parent doing perpetual rehab, between binges and partyting.
Legislators used to refer to it as "State babysitting for partiers."

The public got a little tired of it, as their representatives showed
by the passage of various laws designed to put a stop to it, but still
offer them a chance to rehab, one last chance that is.

The trick is to find the nearest point to balance and continue
teetering there, as a representative democracy (this one anyway) is
designed to perform and produce the results it does, and we are still
freer than any nation on earth.

Well, I will admit that in some other countries parents are far more
likely to be allowed to torture, rape, and kill their children without
sanctions. That could be counted, in some perverse way, as more
freedom.

Darn, if only we could get back to the good old days of parenting in
this country.

Kane
 




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