Tuesday, September 12, 2006
While you're busy arguing with one another...
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Yesterday the country commemorated the five year anniversay of 9/11. I live close enough to NYC to have seen the buildings burnings. Friends and relatves of mine worked close enough to see people jumping. MANY people I know, knows someone who died that day, including neighbors of mine.
Now, just imagine, that while those buildings were burning and collapsing, the first survivors out quarreled amongst themselves instead of trying to aid the resucuers in directing them to other survivors. Imagine - if you can - the fire department members arguing with the Police Department over whose jurisdiction it was and who should do what while people died!
And that is exactly what I see going on every day in this so-called adoption "reform" movement. I see people wasting their time and effort cursing one another out and arguing while adoptions are being promoted more and more...and no one even cares or makes any attempt whatsoever to stop the blood from flowing. Some even have the audacity to call themselves family preservationsists and are doing NOTHING to prevent these "quick trigger adoptions" or the baby brokers. Not one letter to the editor - NOTHING! Far too busy arguing and lamenting past misdeeds.
21 states' adoption efforts rewarded, though some critical of payments
By Cheryl Wetzstein
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
September 10, 2006
About $11.6 million has been awarded to 21 states that have increased
the number of children adopted from foster care, the federal
government said Friday.
"Families that open their hearts and home through adoption do a
world of good," Health and Human Services Secretary Michael O. Leavitt
said.
Incentive payments were given to states that completed more
adoptions in 2005 than in their baseline year, or the year with the
highest number of adoptions between 2002 and 2004.
States receive $4,000 for each additional child adopted beyond
their best year's total, plus $4,000 for each child age 9 and older
and $2,000 for each child with special needs.
Texas led the nation, receiving more than $4 million in incentive
payments, while Arizona and Tennessee each received more than $1
million.
An estimated 51,500 children were adopted from foster care in
fiscal 2005, up from about 50,700 in fiscal 2004, according to HHS.
About 518,000 abused, neglected or abandoned children are in
foster care. Most of these children return home, but about 118,000 are
eligible for adoption, the department said.
The average age of a child waiting for adoption is 10. Each year,
about 19,000 young adults "age out" of the foster care system without
having a permanent home.
While the adoption incentive payments, created in the 1997
Adoption and Safe Families Act, have been generally well received,
there have been some complaints that children are steered into
adoptions so states can win the bonuses.
In January, two Kentucky advocacy groups issued a paper that
questioned whether the state child protection system was
"fast-tracking" children into adoptive homes. While the adoption
incentive payments may have been "a well-conceived federal idea to
discourage children from languishing in foster care, it may have had
an unintended consequence" of making the state agency "too
removal-oriented," especially regarding children from poor families,
statedthe report from Kentucky Youth Advocates and the National
Institute on Children, Youth & Families.
The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services responded by
creating a blue-ribbon panel to explore the accusations and will issue
a report next year. In addition, the agency's Office of Inspector
General is investigating accusations of improper adoptions.
According to the new HHS report on adoption bonuses, Kentucky's
award of $766,000 was fourth highest.
.......
These are weapons of mass destruction, folks! You don't need UN forces to search for them; they're right out in the open about it: Government paid incentives to increase adoptions! And this is the government you expect an apology from??? A government which can't enough kids adopted quickly enough?!
Yesterday the country commemorated the five year anniversay of 9/11. I live close enough to NYC to have seen the buildings burnings. Friends and relatves of mine worked close enough to see people jumping. MANY people I know, knows someone who died that day, including neighbors of mine.
Now, just imagine, that while those buildings were burning and collapsing, the first survivors out quarreled amongst themselves instead of trying to aid the resucuers in directing them to other survivors. Imagine - if you can - the fire department members arguing with the Police Department over whose jurisdiction it was and who should do what while people died!
And that is exactly what I see going on every day in this so-called adoption "reform" movement. I see people wasting their time and effort cursing one another out and arguing while adoptions are being promoted more and more...and no one even cares or makes any attempt whatsoever to stop the blood from flowing. Some even have the audacity to call themselves family preservationsists and are doing NOTHING to prevent these "quick trigger adoptions" or the baby brokers. Not one letter to the editor - NOTHING! Far too busy arguing and lamenting past misdeeds.
21 states' adoption efforts rewarded, though some critical of payments
By Cheryl Wetzstein
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
September 10, 2006
About $11.6 million has been awarded to 21 states that have increased
the number of children adopted from foster care, the federal
government said Friday.
"Families that open their hearts and home through adoption do a
world of good," Health and Human Services Secretary Michael O. Leavitt
said.
Incentive payments were given to states that completed more
adoptions in 2005 than in their baseline year, or the year with the
highest number of adoptions between 2002 and 2004.
States receive $4,000 for each additional child adopted beyond
their best year's total, plus $4,000 for each child age 9 and older
and $2,000 for each child with special needs.
Texas led the nation, receiving more than $4 million in incentive
payments, while Arizona and Tennessee each received more than $1
million.
An estimated 51,500 children were adopted from foster care in
fiscal 2005, up from about 50,700 in fiscal 2004, according to HHS.
About 518,000 abused, neglected or abandoned children are in
foster care. Most of these children return home, but about 118,000 are
eligible for adoption, the department said.
The average age of a child waiting for adoption is 10. Each year,
about 19,000 young adults "age out" of the foster care system without
having a permanent home.
While the adoption incentive payments, created in the 1997
Adoption and Safe Families Act, have been generally well received,
there have been some complaints that children are steered into
adoptions so states can win the bonuses.
In January, two Kentucky advocacy groups issued a paper that
questioned whether the state child protection system was
"fast-tracking" children into adoptive homes. While the adoption
incentive payments may have been "a well-conceived federal idea to
discourage children from languishing in foster care, it may have had
an unintended consequence" of making the state agency "too
removal-oriented," especially regarding children from poor families,
statedthe report from Kentucky Youth Advocates and the National
Institute on Children, Youth & Families.
The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services responded by
creating a blue-ribbon panel to explore the accusations and will issue
a report next year. In addition, the agency's Office of Inspector
General is investigating accusations of improper adoptions.
According to the new HHS report on adoption bonuses, Kentucky's
award of $766,000 was fourth highest.
.......
These are weapons of mass destruction, folks! You don't need UN forces to search for them; they're right out in the open about it: Government paid incentives to increase adoptions! And this is the government you expect an apology from??? A government which can't enough kids adopted quickly enough?!
# posted by Senior Mom @ 1:10 PM 
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Mirah: "Some even have the audacity to call themselves family preservationsists and are doing NOTHING to prevent these "quick trigger adoptions" or the baby brokers. Not one letter to the editor - NOTHING! Far too busy arguing and lamenting past misdeeds."
The best way to prevent unnecessary adoptions today is to warn young pregnant women of the dire lifelong consequences of signing the consent. Seems to me only those anti-adoptionists are doing that. The rest of the adoption community are too scared to make a stand and publicly oppose adoption lest they be vilfied. Is CUB anti adoption?
The best way to prevent unnecessary adoptions today is to warn young pregnant women of the dire lifelong consequences of signing the consent. Seems to me only those anti-adoptionists are doing that. The rest of the adoption community are too scared to make a stand and publicly oppose adoption lest they be vilfied. Is CUB anti adoption?
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: 3:05 PM
: 3:05 PM
"The best way to prevent unnecessary adoptions today is to warn young pregnant women of the dire lifelong consequences of signing the consent. Seems to me only those anti-adoptionists are doing that.
HOW? What exactly are the doing?
CUB is not "afraid." Instead of arguing, they provide Heather Lowes booklet, written expressly for expectant mothers, to crisis pregnancy centers. What are the anti-adoption groups DOING?
Talk is cheap. It requires ACTION! And so I say again...while you're all argruing with one another and me, what are you DOING?
HOW? What exactly are the doing?
CUB is not "afraid." Instead of arguing, they provide Heather Lowes booklet, written expressly for expectant mothers, to crisis pregnancy centers. What are the anti-adoption groups DOING?
Talk is cheap. It requires ACTION! And so I say again...while you're all argruing with one another and me, what are you DOING?
I am NOT a spokesperson for CUB, nor do they need any defending, but I would like to inform you that CUB is a real organization with real MEMBERS. Membership numbers are important when fighting legislatively. Websites can make any CLAIM about "members" but without actual dues being paid to be a member of an organization you have NOTHING.
If you want to be the spokespeople for mothers and not let CUB speak for you, you ought to look into that.
Currently, they are the oldest and most recognized national organization representing mother shwo have surrendered children. They have been quoted in many, many books and unlimted articles and professional journals as such.
Any other groups has along way to go to catch up...
And, on the subject of being afrais to come out and be called anti-adoption...how come any time the phrase is used, I have been told - by Karen Butterbuagh herself, for one - "We're NOT anti-adoption; we're pro family preservation" ? Why is that? Either way it's just lip service as far as OUSA and Exiled are concerned, compared to what CUB has done for 30 years, and still is doing IMO.
Adoption legalized Lies (ALL) also seems to do more than argue about what mothers are called. They offer support to expectant mothers. And BTW - they have been rabidly anti-adiotiuon since the 80's. OUSA nor Exiled mothers did not "create" anti-adoption or guardianship as a "new phenonomenon" they have just brought non-productive in-fighting to the movement than ever before.
BTW - I have posted here previously that I myself personally housed mothers to help them keep their babies and asked you and anyone else what they have done personally - or as an organization...and so far no one has answered me...geee...wonder why that is??? Could it be cause no one else is doing anything but fighting?
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If you want to be the spokespeople for mothers and not let CUB speak for you, you ought to look into that.
Currently, they are the oldest and most recognized national organization representing mother shwo have surrendered children. They have been quoted in many, many books and unlimted articles and professional journals as such.
Any other groups has along way to go to catch up...
And, on the subject of being afrais to come out and be called anti-adoption...how come any time the phrase is used, I have been told - by Karen Butterbuagh herself, for one - "We're NOT anti-adoption; we're pro family preservation" ? Why is that? Either way it's just lip service as far as OUSA and Exiled are concerned, compared to what CUB has done for 30 years, and still is doing IMO.
Adoption legalized Lies (ALL) also seems to do more than argue about what mothers are called. They offer support to expectant mothers. And BTW - they have been rabidly anti-adiotiuon since the 80's. OUSA nor Exiled mothers did not "create" anti-adoption or guardianship as a "new phenonomenon" they have just brought non-productive in-fighting to the movement than ever before.
BTW - I have posted here previously that I myself personally housed mothers to help them keep their babies and asked you and anyone else what they have done personally - or as an organization...and so far no one has answered me...geee...wonder why that is??? Could it be cause no one else is doing anything but fighting?
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