Anyone affected by this nation's child welfare system dislikes it. The abusive or neglectful parent does not like it. The foster parents do not like it. The children, especially the ones old enough to talk about it, don't like it. It is a terrible mess.
Blacks and Hispanics are represented in the system way out of proportion to their population numbers. There are activist groups in predominantly black communities and also in predominantly Hispanic communities. The Social Services bureaucracies are run by politically correct liberals. They have found a way to quiet the activist groups. The Denver Department of Human Services has developed a policy that has garnered national acclaim for the department. The policy is to keep children in their own neighborhoods. Keep blacks with blacks, Hispanics with Hispanics, whites with whites. The policy is racist to the core.
There should be only one consideration as to where the children should be placed: is the home loving, well suited to provide the discipline and nurturing the child needs? In more legal terms, that means, "best interest of the child." If the best home available today on the placement worker's list of homes for that white child happens to be black or Hispanic, then place the child in that home! Make the policy color blind. Every policy of our government should be color blind!
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Excellent, Bob, and it is racist for sure!
You just commented on the post I put up, with links that prove what I'm talking about, but the deniers of fact still argue! They won't see the truth because they don't want to see it.
All you or I can do is put it out there. At least we're fighting the good fight! :)
gayle,
Thank you. And, thank you for your tireless work in fighting back!
Back at you! :)
By the logic of some of these minority rights groups, being color-blind is racist. The welfare of the child must come first.
My parents were not foster parents. My mother came from a large family while my father was an only child without a father at home. In addition to us 6 kids we always had other children with us. They were children in trouble or the children of parents in trouble or suffering from trouble. Color didn't matter nor did religion nor politics except to others that saw it as an abomination that negroes and white children were living together. My father, a surgeon, challenged them to come to an operation and point out which race a patient was when only the wound was exposed. We heard little about it after that though there was a lot of mumbling from the "do-gooders". We didn't care because our extra brothers and sisters were also the siblings my father never had.
This is a long winded way of saying rock on and I hope the government stays mostly away.
mred,
Your dad was way cool to do that. The hand writing is on the wall that the Dept. is going to place little Mau with a cousin for adoption. It is going to be very hard for her, and for me. She loves us completely. I am her daddy that she can always count on. I will really miss her and she will really miss us.
This is identity politics and "diversity" at it's best (worst actually), splintering and fracturing the base of a once cohesive group identity to achieve political gain by claiming to represent each and every different group exclusively.
We've been thinking about the race issues a lot lately, and it's getting me a little worked up. We went to an adoption/foster conference this weekend and heard a lot of crying and moaning from adult adoptees with "identity issues".
The way I see it, our children of other races are a lot better off having two parents and possible "identity issues" to work through, than many kids being raised by biological mothers but no fathers, and/or no food on the table. Nobody's life is perfect. My parents were divorced. I had (maybe still have) wounds from that. Everyone could give their own example. So, we turn to the Lord, we work through our pain, we receive counseling if necessary, and then we GET OVER IT. Or at least learn to live with it.
Why must your state consider race more important than the thousand other factors that go into making a good home? No, you're not perfect parents, but at least you're willing and able to give them your best. I don't mean to downplay the identity issues or race issues, but it's not the ONLY issue, and I would like to think that my sons will be able to work through that at least as well as we've all worked through the problems in our lives.
daddio,
Very, very well said, and I so agree with you.
Bob, what you're posting is such important info. Keep up the good work in standing up to the insane systems, run by bureaucrats.
webutante,
Thank you for your kind encouragement and for understanding what I am trying to say!
dirtcrashr,
You have an amazing power to analyze (see through the phony explanations) and tell it like it is.
shoprat,
Absolutely correct in both your points!
Thanks Bob, I've been working through my own issues with the structure of Liberalism, from the heart of the belly of the blue beast on the Left Coast...
dirtcrashr,
One thing we know for sure: with liberalism you are only significant as a member of a group. It's all about pandering to groups of voters.
I know of a principal who wanted to take in some foster kids from her school...but the district told her 'no' because of possible ramifications to the district if something went wrong. So now instead of the kids being in a kind, caring, and safe home, the brother and two sisters are now in two different homes in two different counties. How is that best for those kids?
mrs. who,
Can you believe how much power neglectful and abusive parents have? The bureaucrats running your school district are lame cowards who do not give a damn about the best interests of kids.
Bob,
Good news to share re: CPS.
They took my brother's grandson away from his mother [brother's d-in-law] and have placed him with my brother's daughter.
D-in-l moved a scumbag in to live with them after the little boy's Dad [my nephew] was killed in motorcycle accident. Anyway, the scumbag was beating 10 year old Zac with a belt,so he 'ran away' from home & was picked up by the police. CPS was called in and they determined he wasn't safe at home.
Mom apparently behaved quite badly at the hearing and sealed her fate.
We are so relieved and know it's for the best. Perhaps Mom will get treatment - one can only hope, but still, Zac is in a much better place. His Dad had filed for a divorce just before he was killed and most likely would have been awarded custody.
mizz e,
Thanks for sharing. I am glad that you feel CPS did the right thing. Now the mother may have to choose: scumbag, or son?
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