I would like to know if this bothers anyone else?

Question

this is about ASFA, the Orwellian law passed in 1996 that allows CPS to terminate parental rights after keeping a child in foster care for only 15 months. This has encouraged the CPS tactic of delaying reunifications until the time limit is reached so they can adopt out children even if the parents are adequate and have done everything required. This law also gives states bonus money for each child adopted out.

ASFA = “The Adoptions and Safe Families Act” - ostensibly written to keep children from having to live in long term foster care, by encouraging adoptions. In practice it has encouraged states to rip apart young families to get the babies because they are most easily adopted out. Older “hard to adopt” children are featured on meat-market type websites where people can look through to see if they want any featured children. The states get thousands of dollars for each adoption, from the federal treasury. “Child collectors”… aka Adopters… get thousands of dollars in adoption subsidy payments. Social workers get jobs since they are the front-line in taking children from their families. It is a win-win situation for everyone except parents and children who are used, abused, and traumatized for life by this pathetic rush for money by greedy systemites.

Answer 1

"Problem Child's" answer was terrific.  I'll add only one other point.  How long do you propose to give the parents to get their act together while the poor kid languishes in foster care?  15 months?  3 years?  10 years?  Just wait until the child's entire childhood is over anyway, while the court gives the parents chance after chance to stay clean/relapse/stay clean/relapse?  Children are removed from their homes in only a very small percentage of cases and reunion with their families is always the first goal.  But if the parents can't get it together enough to provide a reasonably safe home for the child in 15 whole months. . .then let's give the child a chance at life somewhere else before they get too trashed by the system and too old to be unadoptable.

Answer 2

I have enjoyed your one sided Rush Limbaugh attitude.

Now the facts are. The law was enacted for the protection of the child, from bad parent(s).

If you ever dealt with the aspect of the old pre days, where you had the child let back by the law, to the abusive parents, to be beat till found dead, you asked what can be done to protect one from such a horrible fate.

If you ever dealt with a child that you knew, that was beaten to death, drowned etc, there would be no question in your mind as to what or why the law transpired.

As to the right of the parent to seek court ordered counseling and then get the child back, all efforts are made to keep a family together.

I have seen many families reunited and some gladly not.

Answer 3

It bothers me. Seems like it's all about the money..

Answer 4

Yes, because thats the states mission...to take kids away and put them up for adoption...you caught them. Horray for you...LOL.

Now, the facts...Most kids are not adopted. This has and always will be a long term issue. nobody is banging down the door to adopt some messed up ghetto baby. Sorry, its just not happening. Most of these kids spend years in the system, then are kicked out at 18. Not sure what world you live in...must be nice.

States spend a tremendous amount of money on foster kids, the system, investigations etc. Nobody is getting "rich" of this in any way shape matter or form.

I'm sure, with all your child welfare and legal experiences, that you have seen the h**l holes the kids come from. The abuse they suffer, the neglect etc.

I am also sure you are the first person pointing a finger when some kid dies because child welfare people "didn't do their JOB", according to you.

But you seem to have it all figured out. Its the social workers, with advanced degrees (masters, doctorates) making 40,000 a year that are secretly getting rich.

Its the foster parents who open up their homes and hearts to children that have horrendus things done to them.

Your question proves to me that you have no clue what the h**l you are talking about. if you did, you would see how moronic your statement is. If you wotked in the system, you would see how laughable your claims are. The system is not funded well, chronically short of resources, overworked and worse.

Lets not get to the real issue...people who can have kids with no reprecusiions, fatheless children, multiple kids by different parents, drugs etc.

Bottom line, its harder to adopt a dog than it is to have a child.

Answer 5

Eventually we'll just start harvesting the organs of unwanted children, the unemployed, the homeless and the mentally disabled after each gets a "fair hearing" on whether or not they represent any value to the human race.  Nothing, not even humanity, can retain its value in a glutted market.