Many of them come from the taxpayer funded Florida Foster Care system, primarily the privately owned and operated group homes. Another article published by the South Florida Sun Sentinel, titled “Innocence Sold: Florida’s foster system provides dangerous sex traffickers with easy access...
In the United States, most children living in foster care were in foster care for two years or less. However, in 2021, about 23,493 children living in foster care were in foster care for five years or more. Number of children in foster care in the United States in...
An estimated 40,000 to 80,000 children in foster care either receive or are eligible for Social Security benefits, typically because of the death of a parent or their own disability, according to a report released last month by the Children’s Advocacy Institute. Those benefi...
A Structural Equation Model of the Impact of Relationships between Birth Parents and Foster Parents on Child Well-Being and PermanencyJill Spielfogel
Implications include additional research and education about racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare utilization amongst children in foster care, as well as implementing regulations and oversights that mandate racial equity in the child welfare and healthcare service pathways....
depending on how badly the trauma impacted them. We pay child support every time a child goes into foster care. I would much rather mytax dollarshelp support a poor family of origin care for their children than to give child support to a foster family who could possibly have a higher inco...
It is interesting to see how the climate emergency is barely registering in the election, even though the evidence of its impact is becoming ever more undeniable. Just a few weeks ago the coast of Florida was battered by Hurricane Milton, coming just days after massive flooding along the south...
Helping children who’ve grown up in care seems to resonate with donors. VIU has raised more than $1 million to pay for these students’ expenses — above and beyond the tuition waivers — over the past five years, Litchfield said.
Nashville is a class-divided city. The term “taxpayers” is divisive in that it designates two groups of people, those who pay taxes and those who are poor. It also designates an entitled citizen and those who are not entitled to public space, to public bathrooms, to spend time at the...
s overpowering grief at the loss never really subsided and ultimately did damage to the family. No one knows all the reasons, but early in John’s childhood his parents divorced. His father moved to Florida and John went with his mother to Dallas and eventually, after she was remarried to...