Friday, July 28, 2006
The US: Outrageous again!
There's an organization in California called KIDSAVE.
"Kidsave is not an adoption agency. Rather it is a way for families who may be interested in adopting older children to meet the children first and decide if adoption is right for them."
Kidsave's "Summer of Miracles" program which brings kids from Columbia here - older kids (teens) who are about to age out of foster care and be left to survive on their own - here to for a CHANCE to be adopted.
They boast a 90% success, with the remainder shipped back where they came from, allegedly happy to have gotten a taste (tease?) of the good life, however briefly.
Kidsave arranges ice cream socials. "Often, adults are hesitant to adopt a child who is older than an infant, worried their personalities and histories may be too much for a new family to handle. Through Kidsave, children and potential adoptive parents can interact and decide if there is a good fit....You can take it one step at a time."
TRANSLATION: Come and gawk like visitors at the zoo, window shop, maybe even given one a test drive back to your house.
Here's the kicker...There are over half a million kids in US foster care, over 100,000 can never be reunited with their families. But wait...it gets better!
Each year, approximately 20,000 of the 542,000 children in foster care nationwide are discharged to live on their own. Five percent of these, or approximately 1,100 young adults, are discharged to fend for themselves in New York City alone. Nationwide about 20,000 children a year “age out” of foster care. Only half have a high school education, 2% a BA. Eighty-our percent become a parent within 12-18 months of being discharged from foster care. Approximately 25% are homeless. In Wisconsin, 34% of foster youth had been homeless or lived in four or more places 12-18 months after exiting the foster care system. Three in 10 of the nation's homeless adults report foster care history according to CWLA. That’s 5000 kids a year the US is dumping into the streets. Youth aging out of foster care have mean earnings below the poverty level. Youth aging out of foster care earn significantly less than youth in any of the comparison groups both prior to and after their eighteenth birthday. If foster children in general are a population at risk, youth aging out of the foster care system may be even more so.
Who is saving these kids while we have the audacity to save kids from other countries!!!
"Kidsave is not an adoption agency. Rather it is a way for families who may be interested in adopting older children to meet the children first and decide if adoption is right for them."
Kidsave's "Summer of Miracles" program which brings kids from Columbia here - older kids (teens) who are about to age out of foster care and be left to survive on their own - here to for a CHANCE to be adopted.
They boast a 90% success, with the remainder shipped back where they came from, allegedly happy to have gotten a taste (tease?) of the good life, however briefly.
Kidsave arranges ice cream socials. "Often, adults are hesitant to adopt a child who is older than an infant, worried their personalities and histories may be too much for a new family to handle. Through Kidsave, children and potential adoptive parents can interact and decide if there is a good fit....You can take it one step at a time."
TRANSLATION: Come and gawk like visitors at the zoo, window shop, maybe even given one a test drive back to your house.
Here's the kicker...There are over half a million kids in US foster care, over 100,000 can never be reunited with their families. But wait...it gets better!
Each year, approximately 20,000 of the 542,000 children in foster care nationwide are discharged to live on their own. Five percent of these, or approximately 1,100 young adults, are discharged to fend for themselves in New York City alone. Nationwide about 20,000 children a year “age out” of foster care. Only half have a high school education, 2% a BA. Eighty-our percent become a parent within 12-18 months of being discharged from foster care. Approximately 25% are homeless. In Wisconsin, 34% of foster youth had been homeless or lived in four or more places 12-18 months after exiting the foster care system. Three in 10 of the nation's homeless adults report foster care history according to CWLA. That’s 5000 kids a year the US is dumping into the streets. Youth aging out of foster care have mean earnings below the poverty level. Youth aging out of foster care earn significantly less than youth in any of the comparison groups both prior to and after their eighteenth birthday. If foster children in general are a population at risk, youth aging out of the foster care system may be even more so.
Who is saving these kids while we have the audacity to save kids from other countries!!!
# posted by Senior Mom @ 2:25 PM 
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I've also recently read that a foster mom who tried to get her child back from foster care, basically had to prove that she was financially, emotionally and mentally able to take care of her child in a court of law. Which of course, she couldn't do because our family law institution is so corrupt.
I also thought this might interest you, since a bunch of people think you wrote it, thus making me think you'd be interested in reading it. (I know it isn't you, cause I personally know the person who is doing it.)
http://forums.go.com/abcnews/GMA/thread?threadID=402577&byThread=false
I've also recently read that a foster mom who tried to get her child back from foster care, basically had to prove that she was financially, emotionally and mentally able to take care of her child in a court of law. Which of course, she couldn't do because our family law institution is so corrupt.
I also thought this might interest you, since a bunch of people think you wrote it, thus making me think you'd be interested in reading it. (I know it isn't you, cause I personally know the person who is doing it.)
http://forums.go.com/abcnews/GMA/thread?threadID=402577&byThread=false
heather - please provide source of the mother with kids in foster care.
also, the link you sent got truncated. You are the second person who has told me about this ABC/GMA thing and I have bene unable to get to the site and see what's going on.
also, the link you sent got truncated. You are the second person who has told me about this ABC/GMA thing and I have bene unable to get to the site and see what's going on.
Perhaps if the US stopped promoting the frenzied demand for newborns who already have mothers, older children in the care system who really could do with a loving family might not always get overlooked.
Afterall, adoption was originally introduced for children who were in need of a family. It was not meant to become a neverending source of babies for people demanding infants. But that's precisely what it became. The great baby harvest - the greatest swindle of all time.
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Afterall, adoption was originally introduced for children who were in need of a family. It was not meant to become a neverending source of babies for people demanding infants. But that's precisely what it became. The great baby harvest - the greatest swindle of all time.
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