Twitter chat: How do we fix foster care?

More than 415,000 children are in the foster care system in the United States, and the PBS NewsHour talked to a diverse group of people understand what issues these children face and how to improve their outcomes.

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Using Social Media in Child Welfare

Using Social Media in Child Welfare

Just in case you were wondering how the government thinks they should deal with it.

Mother Turns to Social Media to Find Daughter Given Up for Adoption 36 Years Ago

Mother Turns to Social Media to Find Daughter Given Up for Adoption 36 Years Ago

After becoming pregnant at 16, Silvia Aguiar's daughter was given up for adoption while she was in foster care.

School district hires company to follow kids' Facebook, Twitter

School district hires company to follow kids' Facebook, Twitter

The Glendale Unified School District in Southern California outsources keeping tabs on troublemakers as well as identifying kids in trouble. At least these are its justifications.

Tweet of the Day!!!

Thanks to @_Markypoo for today's tweet and for helping us to demonstrate how stupid people really are when it comes to this subject.

Tweet of the Day

Thanks to Amberly @thisbellanotte for the following warning.

Tweet of the Day!

For today's tweet, thanks to IG: taryn_almighty who actually went on a rampage with this subject.

Tweet of the Day!

I would like to thank @VeganSocialJust for today's tweet of the day and for helping to demonstrate the ignorance of society on this issue.  Although she almost got it right as foster kids are often passed around like puppies.

Apparently his/her/its kids are not normal.

Tweet of the day... (sigh)

Thank's to @tanay_diane for today's tweet and for helping me to demonstrate how ignorant society is on this issue.

As long as the ignorant are allowed to tweet, they will do so.

Tweet of the Day

Today's Tweet of the Day comes form multiple people in a nice straight line, and I am only posting one screen shot.

Tweet of the Day!!!

Thanks to @FireBringer225 for his insightful description of the foster care system.

Tweet of the Day!!

Thanks to Edgar Garcia for today's Tweet.

https://twitter.com/Edgar2878

A Tweet and a Retweet from a couple of idiots

I may just start a feature called stupid tweet of the day to demonstrate the stupidity and ignorance in this issue. 

Twitter Shuts Down Accounts with Disturbing Images of Child Abuse

Twitter Shuts Down Accounts with Disturbing Images of Child Abuse


According to the Daily Dot, the National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), a child protection charity in the U.K., were first notified late Sunday and quickly let their Twitter followers know about the situation.

Note: Um, Why does this article not mention the work of Anonymous in this?  #OpPedoHunt

Couple turns to Twitter for adoption

A couple from Berkley is using Twitter as a tool as they attempt to adopt.

I have to post this off topic but very important piece of information

The Department of Homeland Security now admits it keeps tabs on popular websites like Facebook and Twitter.

DHS monitors popular, public websites



HI!!!

Twitter 'failing' on child abuse, Ceop watchdog warns

Twitter 'failing' on child abuse, Ceop watchdog warns

Twitter's child protection policies are lagging behind other social networking websites, a watchdog has warned.

Anyone in a legal case should get off Facebook and Twitter

Anyone in a legal case should get off Facebook and Twitter

Jailing a juror for contempt of court for contact made on Facebook raised many more questions about how social networking websites and the courts co-exist. But solicitor Sara Tomaszewski says the problem lies with site users, not the sites themselves

Keeping secrets in the age of tweets

Keeping secrets in the age of tweets

Britain’s privacy law is a mess—and increasingly unsustainable

TAKE the common-law principles of fairness, add a dash of European human-rights legislation, a lucrative tabloid trade in kiss-and-tell stories, an ineffective press watchdog, a touch of angst about secret justice and a technology that makes everyone into a publisher, and what do you get? The mess of Britain’s privacy laws, now under sweeping review by a joint committee of both houses of Parliament.