Kinship foster parents have the same responsibilities as nonrelative foster parents and are held to the same standards of rehabilitative care. Nonetheless, their rights to financial supports and their access to other services vary across states depending on the federal eligibility of the child, and/...
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The foster dads have been feeding the chick crop "milk," which comes from the parents' upper digestive tract. "Both males and females can feed the chick this way, and even flamingos that are not the parents can act as foster-feeders," according to the zoo. "The begging calls the hung...
These processes were examined in 14 California counties through questionnaires and in-depth interviews with foster care administrators, social workers, foster parents, and health care providers. The study demonstrated variability in medical and mental health evaluations of foster children, and lack of ...
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while other areas are not. Some places are more directly affected by the influx of children into the foster care system. For example, substance abuse by parents, particularly heroin, is a major reason more children are being placed into the foster care system in states like California and ...
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it will be implemented and regulated by the bureaucrats that the bill creates. The intent–that all possible foster homes will have activists indoctrinated in the ways of the cult–will get through. Thus, heterosexual christian foster youth will not stand a chance, as only...
Placements in a foster family have dramatically increased over the last ten years. For some young children and young adults in the foster care system, they have experienced abuse and neglect and have been removed from their parents. Other children have suffered a variety of parental problems such...
LESSONS FROM CLASS STRUGGLE, 1998, 46 minutes (also available in Spanish) The film follows the yearlong battle waged by parents, students and teachers to stop budget cuts to New York City's already devastated public schools. Distributed by Third World Newsreel. "A powerful film that forces ...