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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kind adults taking in the forgotten and mistreated children of the world OUT OF LOVE, not a paycheck.....
I have to wonder about all these fundraisers popping up to raise money for foster children to buy clothes...
excuse, me don't the adults get money to pay for the foster children?
wow, aren’t you the stud....truly a good Christian man I’ll bet too.....NOT!
>I’ll get slammed for this but sometimes I feel that people go into foster care as their line of work..a job..which to me, goes against what foster care should be...
I agree, but with the state cycles kids around it’s impossible to really create a real family. People who really care about the kids tend to burn out and quit when they realize what the system is and people who like the money stick around. Even worse people who abuse children are seldom removed since it’s so hard to find foster parents. I have several friends who formerly worked in the field(placement, not foster parenting) and they told me they were instructed not to report abuse.
>kind adults taking in the forgotten and mistreated children of the world OUT OF LOVE, not a paycheck.....
That’s all well and good until you get a really screwed up kid. There’s nothing you can do to fix kid that’s been abused, was a drug baby, etc.
that’s a great story....I think as long as kids know they are loved, things will turn out okay....sounds like you had lots of people loving you...
It's a whole lot easier to "love forgotten and mistreated children" in principle than in practice.
Then you are sadly uninformed, which wouldn't be so bad if you didn't sound supercilious about it.
family is not important, have you read The Glass Castle? Many of us are lucky to escape our birth families and make a separate life for ourselves. Family is a trap into a cesspool of dysfunction.
You don’t say so. They executed Ceausescu, but Romanian orphans are still a big problem.
Well said!
Doesn’t matter we should all learn from the past. I fought with my foster dad aged 14, I saw violence every week between them, I was used , but I d teach my kids how lucky they are to have what they have, even if we are not rich.
We have a roof over our heads, we have a car, and we can pay bills.
Please do not feel ever sorry as it made me a better person, and a better husband, and father. I hope .
she enjoyed the money while it lasted , and now I am older she has nothing, and so I concentrate on my kids.
sad not really as it made me a stronger person to be a family man. We all have luck , or not but we should not dwell on the negatives.
22 years of marriage, 3 kids, one in the Marine Corps, and others in high school getting A’s who are joining the Corps, and all are conservative .
If you believe that, you haven’t experienced how cruel some nuns can be to children.
What is your alternative suggestion?
We took in three, we got no money as the state was not involved and that’s fine because we don’t need or want them in our business. One of the big problems with this society is too many people leave it to the state to provide for and look after kids, a task for which a state is entirely unsuitable.
And demonstrably wrong....
How cruel CAN some nuns be to children?
DING DING DING!
WE HAVE A WINNAH!
I wasn’t a foster but I moved out when I was 17 and got an apartment across the street from John Gottis club on 101st Ave.
Parents were not great, but going it alone at that age was no problem for me and lots of other people did it.
Not a fan of kicking out someone when they are 18 but they are adults, not too many foster families are going to let someone live in their house until they are 30.
Foster families for the most part are in if for the money and not necessarily the greatest people around, adopting a kid is a real commitment and those people are really good Samaritans.
Thank you and amen. I am humbled.
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