Adoption...did anyone see extreme home makeover tonight?

Question

So, there was this family that adopted/foster @ 5 boys of different ages. Their home had lead throughout and was dangerous and a health hazard to the boys.....so, tada, new home courtesy of ABC. They were in Rhode Island. I am wondering why CPS would place 5+ children in a home with lead at hazardous levels. Did anyone see this episode or hear why exactly they were still able to foster kids in an unhealthy environment? Apparently the kids were really suffering from the effects, but I didn't see the first 10 minutes. Thanks!

Answer 1

i saw it..........

they already had the kids when they found out about the lead poisoning.....

and 2 were their kids and 3 was adopted......

Answer 2

Other then checking to make sure my hot water tank wasn't set too hot there were no checks for anything else when I got licensed.  Heck, they didn't even check my bank account or my credit rating never mind lead paint.

Answer 3

I didn't see the episode but I know that lead testing isn't part of a home visit and isn't performed by CPS before placing children in a home.  Unfortunatly if you live in an older home before the lead laws went into effect there could be lead paint in it, or if you have old metal pipes lead can be in them....lead can be anywhere in older homes or in christmas decorations like those lightup decorations people put out on their lawns every year.  Heck lately haven't you seen all the toy recalls for lead in paint.  So chances are that is why they were still able to foster to adopt because testing isn't part of the home visit.

Answer 4

no dont watch it

Answer 5

Because that show is fake.  They had the one about the guy who was in Iraq and his wife supposedly left him with the kids, when the truth was that she lived like 5 houses down and the girls never even stayed with him.  They're just going for ratings.

Answer 6

I wonder why -- if lead paint is so bad -- we don't go take all the children who are currently living in homes with lead paint and put them in foster homes that don't have lead paint?

I wonder why we don't have every house with lead paint torn down since we know how bad it is for children.

They do NOT require foster parents to do More then any other parent... Lead paint on homes it not illegal and 100,000 of people live in homes with lead paint... In fact, most homes built before 1978 have a huge risk of Lead Paint ...  

I own two rental houses -- built 1974 and 1950... Rented by Section-8 low income families with the rent being paid by the Federal Government--Both houses have lead paint (my biological children grew up in the 1974 house) As a landlord or as a person wanting to sell the house our only obligation is to inform the people who live there that the house has lead paint....

I grew up in a house with lead paint.... My kids grew up in a house with lead paint...and odds are that anyone who lived in a home built before the 1970's grew up in a house with lead paint... Anyone who grew up in the 1970's likely played with toys covered in lead paint--and rode bikes pained with lead paint...

So--now with the issues that there ARE NOT ENOUGH Foster Homes in the first place--Lets all just demand that foster families are required to do more then an ordinary family---Foster Families must live in a home built after 1978 or they can't foster!  Right....

Sorry--but, the truth is that requiring foster families to be Better then Every Other family isn't going to help the childre... and if the state believed these children were better off with this Foster Family in a home filled with lead--Imagine Where the Children Came From?

Answer 7

well, lead testing isn't a requirement.  however!  

we share the same feelings.

what happened was one of the kids came home from school having tested poz for lead.  so they made the family make changes in order to keep things status quo.  they couldn't afford the changes so they asked abc to do it and they did.