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MolochHunter ago

THe crucial Pizzagate related aspect of this is that what nancy schaeffer died for was not just in her state - it is ALL STATES and the legislation that enabled this CPS cash bonuses for stealing kids was wrtten by none other than

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/16/1485775/-What-Hillary-Clinton-s-terrible-foster-care-law-did-to-poor-children-of-color

New_years_day ago

Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA):

  • ASFA encouraged a take-the-child-and-run mentality on the frontlines of child welfare. Thousands more families, overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately families of color, were destroyed by wrongful removal of the children.

  • Instead of reducing the foster care population, ASFA increased it, trapping thousands more children in a system that, according to one major study, churns out walking wounded four times out of five.

  • ASFA effectively turned the child welfare system into the ultimate middle-class entitlement: Step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own.

  • And when the army of childless yuppies didn’t show up to adopt in anywhere near the numbers predicted, ASFA created a generation of “legal orphans” with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive homes either — probably at least 100,000 more such “legal orphans” than had ASFA not become law.

New_years_day ago

It happened because ASFA was built on a foundation of false premises:

  • False premise #1: Any parent who loses a child to foster care is a sadist, a brute, or a hopeless addict who “puts drugs ahead of the children.”

  • Fact: Far more common are cases in which family poverty is confused with neglect; other cases fall between the extremes. So it’s no wonder that two massive studies involving more than 15,000 typical cases found that children left in their own homes fared better even than comparably-maltreated children placed in foster care.

  • False premise #2: An earlier federal law, passed in 1980, requiring “reasonable efforts” to keep families together supposedly led to some children being left in dangerous homes and other children languishing in foster care.

  • Fact: The law did nothing to change the federal financial incentives that encourage foster care and discourage better alternatives. So the number of children taken from their parents kept right on increasing in almost every year after that law was passed. And though known cases of child abuse peaked in 1993, entries into foster care still kept going up. The reason children languished in foster care was the failure to make reasonable efforts to keep families together.