Foster Care

This past week we had some bad news in my area.  Four kids were removed from their home and placed into foster care.  The reasons they were removed from the home have not been released yet but we have heard everything from a messy home to drug paraphenilia being found.  Whatever the reasons, once they were removed there were relatives who offered to take them in.  The relatives were turned down and they were placed with a strange family in foster care.  Two days later, the littlest one, a three year old was found drowned in the pool by the other children.  What the heck!?  Were was this "great" and "responsible" family?  Now I am a mom.  I know you can't watch your kids every second of everyday but I just can't imagine a four year old being out of my sight for so long that I wouldn't have been the one to find him.  This is the second drowning of a foster kid in just a couple of months.   If you are going to take my kids because my house is messy you better darn well make sure the family you are putting them with can take care of them.  What is worse?  A messy house or parents who don't know where the child is?  Did they expect that the older kids were keeping an eye on him?  Whatever the reasons when you look back at all the horrible things we have heard about foster care, the little girl in Florida who died because health and welfare didn't know where she was, the drowings, the kids in the cages, the kids crammed into one bedroom with dirty mattresses etc, we must fix the foster care system.  Remember, kids can't speak for themselves.  As responsible adults it is OUR duty to take a stand and demand that our kids are kept safe.     FREE information on government grants, auctions, and more!  www.freefromscams.com     Technorati Tags : justice, foster, care, negligence, kids, children, mom, system Powered By Qumana