State expects to make changes to foster care and adoption systems.
There are welcome news that the state is about to overhaul the forster care and adoption systems in Kentucky. As many of you may be aware, more times than not and in a kind of knee jerk reaction, the commonwealth removes kids from their natural (biological) parents and sends them off to foster care and for adoptions. Many argue that this is because the commonwealth gets credits (read: money) from the Federal government for such forster care and adoption placements. If this is true, then it is damning. Our children are our future leaders (and what we put into them by way of how we raise them is what we can expect to get out of them) and the family is the fabric that holds society together. Mess with them, while diregarding what is in their BEST interests, and we all pay a terrible price -- some say we have been paying that terrible price already. So, any news suggesting an overhaul of such a system as we have, can ONLY be considered welcome news indeed.
Labels: Justice, Public safety
posted by KYJurisDoctor at 11:29 AM
2 Comments:
When I grew up in foster care, I lived in Kentucky.
At the time, they let kids languish in foster care for years.
What I have seen more recently is most definitely a knee-jerk reaction wherein they are choosing to take the other extreme.
Here is a link to my May 7, 2006 blog entry about this subject:
http://sunshinegirlonarainyday.blogspot.com/2006/05/from-one-extreme-to-other.html#links
If that doesn't work, you can visit my blog at http://sunshinegirlonarainyday.blogspot.com and just go to the May 7th entry.
I think you will find that your views and mine are quite similar.
Lisa
Thanks. We MUST NEVER trade the best interests of children for money -- or anything else!
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