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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 19348" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Just jumping in here ... I don't know how it works in other states, but where I live there is a limit on how many foster children are allowed to be in any one home - there can only be just so many children under the parents' care, and that includes their own bio and adopted children. And here you have to prove that you have sufficient income of your own to provide for your own needs before you are approved as a foster parent. Some may fudge on it later, but you are not allowed to derive your own income from the subsidies given for foster children. Of course, this is if you foster directly through the State. Not sure about the outside agencies, but don't they have to be regulated through the state too? Not that our foster care system here is such a glowing example ... they've had their share of scandals and shakeups and stories in the news.</p><p></p><p>I agree that there should be some type of tracking system for foster and adoptive children. But aren't most foster care systems set up state by state? It's been a while since I first heard this story, and I may be mistaken, but didn't they get some of these foster children from out-of-state agencies? If the agencies were not monitoring these children as closely as they should have, and the child is in another state, that child may completely slide under the radar of the state they now live in! They may not even know that the child exists! For a tracking system to work, it would have to be a nationwide system, not state by state. </p><p></p><p>This may sound goofy at first, but in the rural area where I live, several of the people I work with have small herds of cattle to supplement their income. And I've listened to them discussing the huge mounds of paperwork that they now have to complete whenever they buy or sell cattle. Since the first hints of "Mad Cow Disease", cattle are now tracked so closely that if you wanted to, you could find out exactly which cow in which pasture provided your last Whopper or Big Mac! </p><p></p><p>So if we can track cattle so closely and accurately, why can we not keep track of living, breathing, human CHILDREN!?!? If they are sending someone money every month to care for the child, it doesn't seem like it would be all that complicated! I still remember the stories on the news a while back of the little five year old girl who was "lost" in the Florida foster care system! They finally admitted that they had no earthly idea where this child was! Did they ever find her? Sheeeesh!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 19348, member: 1883"] Just jumping in here ... I don't know how it works in other states, but where I live there is a limit on how many foster children are allowed to be in any one home - there can only be just so many children under the parents' care, and that includes their own bio and adopted children. And here you have to prove that you have sufficient income of your own to provide for your own needs before you are approved as a foster parent. Some may fudge on it later, but you are not allowed to derive your own income from the subsidies given for foster children. Of course, this is if you foster directly through the State. Not sure about the outside agencies, but don't they have to be regulated through the state too? Not that our foster care system here is such a glowing example ... they've had their share of scandals and shakeups and stories in the news. I agree that there should be some type of tracking system for foster and adoptive children. But aren't most foster care systems set up state by state? It's been a while since I first heard this story, and I may be mistaken, but didn't they get some of these foster children from out-of-state agencies? If the agencies were not monitoring these children as closely as they should have, and the child is in another state, that child may completely slide under the radar of the state they now live in! They may not even know that the child exists! For a tracking system to work, it would have to be a nationwide system, not state by state. This may sound goofy at first, but in the rural area where I live, several of the people I work with have small herds of cattle to supplement their income. And I've listened to them discussing the huge mounds of paperwork that they now have to complete whenever they buy or sell cattle. Since the first hints of "Mad Cow Disease", cattle are now tracked so closely that if you wanted to, you could find out exactly which cow in which pasture provided your last Whopper or Big Mac! So if we can track cattle so closely and accurately, why can we not keep track of living, breathing, human CHILDREN!?!? If they are sending someone money every month to care for the child, it doesn't seem like it would be all that complicated! I still remember the stories on the news a while back of the little five year old girl who was "lost" in the Florida foster care system! They finally admitted that they had no earthly idea where this child was! Did they ever find her? Sheeeesh! [/QUOTE]
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