Foster Children With Special Needs Benefit From Respite Care

The major difference between myself, and the normal person who might come across an article like the one I present to you in this post, is that I read these articles with a lot of preconceived notions. One of my preconceived notions, for example, is that these people are fakes and frauds. Another is that babystealers often lie. Another is that families are ripped apart for frivolous reasons. And finally, although I know that there are people out there who do want to help children, there are that many more who do if for the money.

Now keep these preconceived notions in mind when reading the following article, as it will help you to get my point later on in this post.

Foster Children With Special Needs Benefit From Respite Care

Special needs children in the foster system were notoriously hard to place. In some cases it was the fact that the conditions were so medically complex that the average foster parent felt ill at ease with the extensive nursing care required on a round the clock basis. Frequently the number of specialists, physicians, clinics, and rehab providers involved in the care were intimidating to the foster parent not simply because of the at home monitoring of the child that was required, but also because the time commitment that it would take to keep all the scheduled appointments appeared to be beyond the scope of one individual.

As you can see, from the first paragraph, the normal person is given a quick education as to a problem that they face in finding placements for children with the label of special needs. So in a sense, the author of this article is creating the preconceived notions that the normal person would need in order to understand of the rest of the article.

Not having any experience with CPS, the normal person is more likely to buy into the bullshit presented in articles like this. And why shouldn't they. Having no prior experience with the system, the normal person has no reason to believe anything other than, these people protect children from abuse and neglect.

In other words, they tell you what they want you to think, not what it is that you should know.

Now, not to switch gears or anything, but the second paragraph is interesting...

Since many willing foster parents either foster more than one child or have children of their own, engaging in the care of another child with a host of special needs is not always a viable option, in spite of their overall willingness to step up to the plate and make it happen. To this end many a program has been devised to offer fiscal incentives to prospective foster parents, but overall the results were dismal. Although more potential foster families could be recruited, the number of those looking for the fiscal remuneration as opposed to taking seriously their responsibility to the foster child also went up.

They actually talk about foster parents doing it for the money. That you don't come across very often.