City of Lost Kids
Baltimore City's foster-care system is messed up. That's not exactly news. But it turns out that it's not just messed up in the ways you'd expect, but in ways that come as a surprise, even in a city as jaded as ours. Yes, group homes can be bad places where kids are warehoused rather than cared for. Yes, kids who have come to the attention of children's welfare services end up in jail or even dead due to neglect, abuse, and sometimes just the violence of our city streets. But did you know that there are people who have been approved to be foster parents who have been waiting for months and sometimes years to get a child in their home? Or that at this time last year, the Baltimore City Department of Social Services (DSS) didn't necessarily know if all the kids under its care had gotten the medical attention they needed, or even where all those kids were?
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
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2 comments:
Not surprised. The "help" I've seen them give has been shoddy at best. I have family getting "help" through the Baltimore system for an issue and I'm not impressed.
It frustrates me to read this because they should be taking care of these kids that they remove from homes. They say the bios are bad parents and neglect them but are they doing better? No, they're doing a much worse job. I'm sure the natural parents wouldn't be neglecting their medical or psychological needs. If they can't protect these children then they need to leave them home where they belong. The vast majority of families that loose their kids are not abusive or neglectful but yet the states take them anyway and then THEY neglect them or put them in homes where they're neglected or abused. Great job, CPS! Yeah, right!
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