Public advocate Letitia James pushes for foster care abuse settlement despite city’s objection

Ignoring a booming chorus of opposition, the city's Public Advocate Letitia James Friday urged a federal judge to approve of a settlement agreement she had made with state officials to impose a special monitor on the city's foster care system.

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Reforms sought by foster youths separated from siblings

Dominique Martinez says she was around 9 and her half-brother was a year younger when she saw him for the last time.

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Lawmakers begin study of Idaho's foster care system

Idaho foster care parents are urging lawmakers to reform the current state system, saying that foster care bureaucracy has caused unnecessary heartache and frustration.

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The Drug Docs: State’s top foster care prescribers fueling medication of vulnerable kids

For years, few questioned how doctors treated the emotional trauma of California’s abused and neglected children — and nobody monitored how often they handed out psychiatric drugs that can turn fragile childhoods into battles with obesity and bouts of stupor.

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Israel's Stolen Babies: Shocking Story of a Decades-old Secret

As many as 5,000 Mizrahim Jewish babies, mostly Yemenis, were reported missing in Israel between 1948 and 1954. Families say they were given away.

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Woman gives up fight to adopt niece

A Cameroonian woman who spent the last two years in the United States fighting in the Allegheny County court system to adopt her niece will head back to her home next week alone.

Catherine Gana was unsuccessful in her efforts to adopt the 6-year-old girl who has spent the last four years in foster care with a woman in Penn Hills.

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Vermont workers hold vigil a year after social worker killed

Employees of the Vermont Department for Children and Families and others have gathered for a private vigil a year after social worker Lara Sobel was shot and killed outside a state office building in Barre.

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Ohio social worker less trusting a decade after boy's death

An Ohio social worker says he's less trusting a decade after a 3-year-old special-needs child he was in charge of died when the boy's foster parents bound him with duct tape and placed him in a tiny, hot closet for several days without food or water.

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• Impact of Marcus Fiesel’s death reverberates 10 years later

Foster parents accused of child abuse, jailed in Pike County

Two Pike County foster parents are being held in Pike County Correctional Facility after police responded to their home and discovered the child they were supposed to be caring for was being abused, their criminal complaints say.

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Former LA county sheriff indicted for cover-up in abuse probe

A former Los Angeles county sheriff has been indicted on charges that could result in a 20-year prison sentence for his role in obstructing a probe into abuses at the county jail.

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Royal commission finds South Australian child protection system must be overhauled

South Australia’s “toxic” child protection system has failed the state’s most vulnerable children and must be overhauled, a royal commission has found.

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• South Australian Premier apologises as royal commission into child protection recommends complete overhaul
• Child Protection Systems Royal Commission makes 260 recommendations, warns of no quick fixes

On CPS reform: We must start somewhere

The Texas child welfare and foster care system is a mess — that’s a fact few would dispute.

How to go about reforming it is a much more complex and nuanced issue — one for which “there will not be a quick or easy solution.”

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• Overhaul Of Texas Child Protective Services Imminent Under Supervision Of Special Masters

Yolo County’s Child Welfare system under microscope

Yolo County’s Child Welfare Services system may go through substantial changes in the coming months as county supervisors take a deeper look at its operations.

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I-TEAM: Foster-child deaths contribute to crisis shortage of foster parents

Every time a foster child dies from abuse or neglect, many good foster parents drop out of the system, Moira Weir says.

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10 years later, impact of Marcus Fiesel's murder still felt

Marcus Fiesel was murdered 10 years ago, bound with tape and placed in a tiny closet at his foster parents' home in Clermont County.

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Mothers call for forced adoption inquiry and apology: 'If Australia can do it, we can'

The Anglican Church has agreed to open its books in an inquiry into historical forced adoptions, but the Government has declined to do the same.

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Foster care needs scrutiny

A troubling legislative audit of Kansas’ foster care system deserves bipartisan attention and action at the Statehouse. The defense offered last week by Kansas Department for Children and Families Secretary Phyllis Gilmore must not be the last word.

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Texas CPS rips children from family after autistic daughter escapes hotel and drowns in nearby lake

The Wartena family of seven was returning from vacation, traveling home to California, when they were suddenly faced with the most tragic of circumstances. The family, stopping off to lodge at the La Kiva Hotel in Texas, was unprepared for what happened next. When their seven-year-old autistic daughter, Alexis Wartena, went missing that evening, the family called for police help and began to desperately search the area.


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Suit over NYC foster care system continues

Beatings, sexual abuse, neglect and malnutrition. That’s what countless kids in the city’s foster care system have experienced on a daily basis, according to Marcia Robinson Lowry.

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Gag! Choke! Puke! - I'm sorry for posting this link.

Note: The following link is one assholes opinion.  Anybody who knows better knows that Hillary's ASFA destroys families.  The article does show just how sold the normal people are on this though.

For the Hillary haters, please read on. Her long history of major contributions toward children and families may soften your view. And if you are of the LDS faith where families are central, you may actually come to like her?

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Think a Tragedy Can’t Get Any Worse? Just Add Child Protective Services

In a field filled with subjectivity and bias, it’s sometimes assumed that one determination is easy: figuring out if a death was caused by child maltreatment.

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Nova Scotia court denies intellectually disabled parents custody of their children

Nova Scotia’s highest court has denied an intellectually disabled couple custody of their children, saying a lower court was wrong to prioritize the parents’ rights over their sons.

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Case of infant’s missing brain in Newfoundland to be reviewed by N.S. medical examiner

Eight months after a Labrador murder case fell apart because the infant victim’s brain went missing, the provincial government has called in Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Examiner to investigate what happened.

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Grandmother believes child abuse claims against parents of grandson is conspiracy

An infant is fighting for his life following a child abuse incident that police said was at the hands of his parents.  However, 8 News NOW spoke with the child's grandmother, Tracy Leahy, who says it's all a conspiracy.

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Six juveniles arrested at county group home after allegedly making threats on staff

Six juveniles from the Synergy Youth Treatment facility west of Smithfield were taken into custody Monday morning after they reportedly turned on the staff.

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