Anyone that would send kids to most foster homes doesn’t like kids or doesn’t know what a foster home is like in many cases. You know the state of Georgia lost thousands of young foster kids in the 90’s-no idea what became of them.
My wife taught school in Wisconsin last year. This family dressed their foster kids in rags (their own kids were dressed very nicely using the foster money no doubt), the foster kids had chores galore (no chores for the natural kids). They didn’t even get the same dinner. Yep, you guessed it. The foster kid got grilled cheese and canned tomato soup. The family dined in style. My wife actually called the social worker who was aware of the situation, but she said they were not actively abusive...in the physical sense so it was a pretty decent placement for foster care. The foster parents refused to help with homework and complained that it interfered with the kid’s ability to do chores...slavery if you ask me.
Don't paint with such a broad brush. For every single bad story you have about a foster home there are dozens of bad stories about real parents. After all why do you think most of these kids are in foster care in the first place?
My wife taught school in Wisconsin last year. This family dressed their foster kids in rags...
I doubt every word of this story that either you or your wife has fabricated.
My wife actually called the social worker who was aware of the situation, but she said they were not actively abusive...in the physical sense so it was a pretty decent placement for foster care.
You wife would have been told "thank you for the information and that it would be looked into" and nothing more. The DCF is required by law to investigate every complaint/report that a foster parent might be neglectful or abusive.
The DCF would have given her NO information on the family (they were not "actively" abusive) nor would she had been informed how this home compared to the rest of foster care (it was a pretty decent placement).
The DCF is staffed with mostly competent people who understand that it is against the law for them to give out ANY type of information about a foster family or a child to the general public.