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CV NEWS FEED // Six Republican senators penned a Thursday letter to the Biden Health and Human Services Department against a proposed rule that seeks to force potential foster parents to comply with the LGBTQ movement. “We write to express our profound concerns regarding the notice of proposed rulemaking … which would impose new mandates on states that would narrow the pool of eligible foster families for children,” wrote Sen. Roger Marshall, R-KS, and five of his Republican colleagues in the letter addressed to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra: The premise of this proposal is that any...

Despite a shortage of foster care families in California, a new bill by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), would ensure that unless all potential foster parents are willing to “affirm” LGBTQ gender and sexuality in foster youth, and any gender transitioning, they will be prohibited by the state from being foster parents.

Adoption agencies that fail to prioritize mothers and fathers in child placements are bowing to social pressure, not the best interests of children.Adoption agencies that fail to prioritize mothers and fathers in child placements are bowing to social pressure, not the best interests of children. Bethany Christian Services, the nation’s largest Protestant adoption agency, made headlines this week when they began serving LGBTQ adults after years of rebuffing government pressure to place children with same-sex couples. To see which way the evangelical winds were blowing, Bethany commissioned the Barna Group to survey Christians on the question of LGBTQ adoptions. The...

A former winner on Food Network's Worst Cooks in America claimed in a bond hearing on Friday that her 3-year-old foster daughter Victoria Rose died after ingesting too much water. Ariel Robinson, 29, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, appeared before a judge virtually on Friday and was denied her bail request of $40,000, according to Fox Carolina. Ariel and her husband Jerry, 34, were both charged with homicide by child abuse in the death of Victoria Rose Smith on Jan. 14. Jerry did not appear in court on Friday. Ariel remains in the Greenville County Detention Center, according to jail records...

America has a dark secret that no one wants to admit. Talk of this secret will get you labelled as a conspiracy theorist, fake news, and outlets who report on it will have their organic reach throttled by social media and Google alike. Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, many in the mainstream media and the government refuse to see this very real epidemic of child sex trafficking in the United States. What’s more, according to the government’s own data, the vast majority of a portion of these trafficked kids are coming from the country’s own foster care system....

A federal judge has given the OK to a lawsuit filed against the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services over its rule that foster parents in the state do not have Second Amendment rights. Well, the rules say they can have guns, but they have to be inoperable. The case was brought on behalf of William and Jill Johnson, a retired Marine and his tackle shop-owning wife as well as another couple and the Second Amendment Foundation. The state asked the Johnsons to be foster parents for their grandson. But during the course of the necessary paperwork for the...

Hodgkinson had a history of violence that did not rise to the level to prohibit him from legally owning a firearm. He was the foster father of at least two girls. The first, Wanda Ashley Stock, 17, committed suicide in 1996 by pouring gasoline on herself and setting herself on fire after a few months of living with the Hodgkinsons, the Belleville News-Democrat reports. The Hodgkinsons gave an interview to the paper after her suicide, calling her a “very practical, level-headed girl.”

abitha and Jeff Shoars have just received word that a judge has allegedly approved a request for 2 of their children in Arizona DCF custody to travel to a dangerous are of Mexico for a week with their foster parents – a request that the Shoars did NOT approve. They are terrified for their children. Unconstitutional Gag Order Was Issued in January The Shoars were placed under a gag order in January so that they cannot speak publicly about the actions of DCS in taking custody of their children. Since that time, they have stayed out of the limelight and remained silent...

A Nevada couple were denied their request to serve as foster parents because they have permits to carry guns. Brian and Valerie Wilson, of Las Vegas, told “Fox & Friends” Sunday that they have always planned to become foster parents and eventually adopt, but have been denied permission to do so because of a state regulation that prohibits the carrying of loaded weapons with foster children. “I really want a family,” said Valerie Wilson. “It really is heartbreaking because these kids are in institutionalized homes; they aren’t getting the families that they deserve,” she told “Fox & Friends.” “It’s heartbreaking...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge has ordered California to increase payment rates immediately to thousands of foster parents, noting that it has been more than 2 1/2 years since he ruled that the state's reimbursement levels failed to cover the costs of raising a child. State officials "have now had a full and fair opportunity to come into compliance with federal law. They have not done so," U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco said Friday.He told the state Department of Social Services to raise its rates to levels specified in a UC Davis study of foster children's...

<p>A California girl who had been missing for almost seven years was found Wednesday by police in Phoenix, Arizona, authorities said.</p> <p>The girl had just turned a year old when she was abducted in September 2003.</p> <p>She had been in the care of foster parents in Norwalk, California, when she was snatched by three of her aunts, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County sheriff's Norwalk Station said.</p>

Vincent and Pauline Matherick are devoted foster parents and have cared for almost 30 children throughout the years. Now the British government is taking away their current foster son because the Mathericks refuse to sign new sexual equality regulations. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=489285&in_page_id=1770 The couple does not want to sign it because it goes against their Christian faith. The British government feels that the boy will better taken care of by a government hostel than staying with the Mathericks ... simply because they refuse to teach their child about homosexuality. Earlier in the year, the County Council's social services department asked the Mathericks...

Foster parents who smoke can no longer light up around the children they care for in their homes beginning Jan. 1. A new policy, adopted by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, aims to reduce health risks for children in foster care, said Sasha Rasco, the agency's director of policy and program operations for child care licensing. Another new rule taking effect next year requires foster families to completely enclose backyard pools and ponds with fences to prevent accidental drownings. Since the state already prohibits smoking in day care centers, Rasco said, it was only natural to extend...

SOUTH BEND -- The 3-year-old boy warms up a smile for his two foster moms -- the one who shields him from soda pop and the one who sneaks him little sips. "We don't always cooperate in our parenting skills," says Elaine Stellini, 46, smirking as she sits with her partner, their adopted son and their two foster sons in the family's leafy, fenced-in backyard. Teamwork for this couple goes beyond the normal tests of parenthood -- like the sticky drips of pop that are dropping onto one of the foster children, a 14-month-old boy.They smile at how the content...

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Two foster parents are accused of putting a 9-year-old girl in a dog cage as a form of discipline. The Clinton Township couple is expected to face charges of second-degree child abuse Friday for the alleged incident, according to Local 4. Police said the girl asked permission to go to a friend's home, but the foster parents would not allow her to go. The child ran away, and the foster parents went to retrieve the girl from the neighbor's house, Local 4 reported. The parents then allegedly put the child in a large dog crate and...

The parents of a 13-year-old foster child who made her bring food to a dead man who lay rotting in their Clark home pleaded guilty Tuesday to elderly neglect and child cruelty. Kenneth Keaveney and his wife, Donna, pleaded guilty in state Superior Court, admitting that Donna's father was left to rot upstairs for weeks before being found on the floor of a room littered with flies, maggots and dog feces. Union County Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow said the plea ends any doubts as to what happened to Nicola Lombardi, whose decomposed corpse was discovered nearly mummified in the August...

Copyright © 2003 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com Chinese immigrants and foster parents fight for 5-year-old Andrew Jacobs NYT Tuesday, March 2, 2004 MEMPHIS, Tennessee Armed with baby pictures and tearful indignation, the two couples come to court each day with their lawyers and supporters aligned on either side of the cherry-paneled chambers. For five years, Jack and Casey He and Jerry and Louise Baker have been tussling over custody of a child who was born to the Hes, but who ended up with the Bakers for what both sides initially agreed was a temporary arrangement. The Hes say...

Police arrested a woman after a man’s security cameras intercepted images from her video camera showing her allegedly abusing foster children. William Brookins called police after he watched the images on a monitor from his home security cameras Sunday night. Brookins realized he was intercepting another camera’s images, which showed two young girls holding their hands overhead, he said. He said after 25 minutes, the 2-year-old’s arms began to sag. A woman rushed into the picture and hit the toddler in the abdomen and the face, knocking her to the floor. The girl then got back to her feet and...

Jul 20, 2003 Report: Pedophile Gained Custody of Foster Child Using False Social Security Number The Associated Press ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Using a false Social Security number, a convicted pedophile escaped detection and gained custody of a 12-year-old foster child, according to a published report. Ira Butt kept the boy in his home for three months in 2001, The Morning Call of Allentown reported Sunday, until the boy told caseworkers that Butt had computer images of child pornography, court records show. The boy did not allege sexual abuse. Butt was convicted of molestation in 1996 and was accused of...

The New Mexico Secretary of Children Youth & Families is proposing to instutue a new program for preventative child abuse. Under this program a social worker will do a home visit and home inspection of every new parent in New Mexico within 2 months of a child’s birth. Supposedly Vermont has instituted such a program and that it has reduced spouse abuse and sex abuse by 50 percent. Are there any Freepers who have any information on this?