Posted on 11/25/2017 1:19:47 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
It’s ironic or tragic or outrageous that in a nation where parents are allowed to keep their children on the family health insurance policy until they’re 26-years-old, many foster children are told to hit the streets when they turn 18. Why is that you ask? Foster parents receive a monthly stipend for foster children in their care. The check is based on the age of the child, extenuating circumstances, and if the child has any disabilities. Amounts can vary depending of the state administering the program.
One thing all the checks have in common is that when the child turns 18 the money from the state stops. Call me naïve, but I would have thought that if a family truly cared about the individual it was fostering the absence of a check would not make any difference.
It shows you how much I know. For some revenue-minded foster "parents" when opening the door no longer provides a check, the foster child is shown the door.
In South Carolina the non-profit Carolina Youth Development Center is working to change this unpleasant reality for at least a few that have aged out of foster care.
CYDC is partnering with Cummins International — the manufacturer of the diesel engines that power the big rigs — to produce independent living transitional housing for those former foster kids. CYDC CEO Beverly Hardin told the Moultrie News, “Children don’t just become independent when they turn 18. They still need guidance and a safe and stable environment in order for them to grow into responsible adults capable of caring for themselves.”
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As another that encountered you on this forum said;
Teddy bears?
What in the hell were you talking about? You were asked to explain, but did the usual insult/deflect combo.
No, I don't want to "play". With you, it's the same garbage EVERYTIME.
You should be shunned. You may have not much noticed --but-- you usually ARE.
I just thought I'd point that out.
I suppose our kids are counted among those “on the streets” since they weren’t “in the system”, but I think they were better off.
I think the foster care system is a horror show. I think monitored orphanages should be brought back into play, just like in the old days, for kids without functional families and also for kids whose parents need to leave them so they can get back on their feet.
The current system is supposed to replace the orphanage system, and IMHO does a terrible job.
Have experienced the evils of the system first hand as a social worker rewarded a foster family with a sib group of three, complete with state and federal bennies instead of a family who would love and care for them.
No, I can’t say that i have noticed, so that program seems to be of rather limited success.
Nevertheless, in my insanity, I’ll leave it to you to defend the guy who wants to rewrite the societal doctrines of “family.”
It was in effect on this thread.
That may not be entirely insane, but it is misplaced, and self-serving. I said nothing about "family" nor was defending something anyone else said about it.
Yet you rush in to gratuitously criticize me.
For what purpose?
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