DCF CT monitor finds kids *worsen* while in state custody

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Subject: DCF CT monitor finds kids *worsen* while in state custody
From: (Fern5827)
Date: 8/8/2003 5:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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Study says kids doing worse under DCF care




Associated Press 08/08/2003


The truth is children often do considerably better under state care.
The article in question was a puff piece poorly written, citing data
that was not sourced, opinions that were claimed to come from
"studies" that were also never cited other than to day they were a
"report." And reports aren't studies.

Here's the straight skinny:

http://old.hartfordadvocate.com/articles/dcf2.html

Loving Parents, Safe Homes
Taking children out of unsafe homes is one thing; finding suitable
places to put them is another.
By Jayne Keedle
The two newest members of Jannette Santiago's family arrived on the
doorstep of her neat Waterbury condominium one evening last November.
They came like two early Christmas presents, a bundled up baby just
six months old and a silent little girl, just about to turn 4.

They were in need of a bath, a hot meal, and a lot of love and
understanding. All they had with them were the clothes on their backs.
The little girl, her dark eyes wide, clutched a toy in a brown paper
bag that her social worker had given her.

Emotional baggage, however, they had in abundance. Beyond the word
"ma" the 4-year-old couldn't speak. She communicated the way she had
been taught, through violence, lashing out physically at everyone
around her. Santiago, 25, began with the basics.

First a hug, then a new coat, then a hurriedly prepared birthday
party. "You have to start all over again," says Santiago. "The kids do
a lot of different things your kids don't do, because you teach your
kids a certain way." These two little girls had a lot to learn.

Santiago taught the 4-year-old how to hold a spoon and how to speak,
not just English but her native Spanish, too. Today, smiles come as
easily to Santiago's two foster children as they do to her two
biological daughters, aged 6 and 8.

end...

More is of course available at the cited URL. The truth about CPS is
that it cannot begin to handle the volume of abused and neglected
children, and the extreme behaviors they are bringing with them.
Gallant foster parents, like the one above, continue to give it their
all though.

While you ****ants have the gall to lie about them, and about CPS.

The nature of the problem is written about rather clearly in the
article. Have a look.

http://old.hartfordadvocate.com/articles/dcf2.html

Kane
CPSWatch watcher