CPS Caseworkers Often Former Foster Children
I’ve written a fair amount about child welfare agencies and their caseworkers. Everything about the subject seems vexed and contradictory. It’s true that many children are abused and/or neglected in this country. The Administration for Children and Families collects data on child abuse and neglect and found that, for the last year of available data, there were about 900,000 such cases.
Note: Former foster kids often make the worst babystealers. It's hard for them to understand the value of a family when they never had one.
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Saturday, January 07, 2012
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2 comments:
Well, they say that children who were abused, become abusers themselves. What is a better way to let that play out if you were a foster child who was abused in the system than to become one of them and do to other kids, what CPS did to you?
Bill Medvecky
This is an important topic worth studying; however when citing statistics of child maltreatment, it has become necessary to counteract the misuse and confusion by the system of those numbers. The terms "abuse" and "neglect" have melded - for all practical purposes - into a single word: abuse-neglect.
When the general public (those remarkably still untouched by CPS) thinks of the sort of child maltreatment that would justify child removals from their families, it imagines abuse. And not just any abuse - horribly violent, even life-threatening abuse.
System officials feed off of this misunderstanding - literally - by throwing out these apparently stunning figures of "abuse-neglect" each year.
In reality, the vast majority of allegations and indications and child removals and foster care cases are not due to physical or sexual child abuse, but conditions rooted in poverty (lack of food, housing, clothing, resources) and the devastatingly destructive "war on drugs" that has authorities stripping children of their loved ones for infractions as minor as their parents' occasional marijuana use.
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