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Foster Kids Given Psychiatric Drugs At Higher Rates

Children in foster care are significantly more likely than other kids to be given... more

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Social Workers Remove Obese Child from Home (VIDEO)

Ohio social workers have sparked a debate over parental responsibility and government... more

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My Take: On Adoption, Christians Should Put Up or Shut Up

CNN..... June 16th, 2011 03:11 PM ET My Take: On adoption, Christians should... more

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Republican legislator want foster children to get only used clothing!

More signs of the times. (End times? Or just decline and fall of the American empire?)... more

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Partnered for Success

You can help Partnered for Success by donating to their project on StartSomeGood.... more

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Breaking News Kroger Coupon Deals

Latest Complete News Updates Here are all the deals that start Sunday 2/27 at Kroger.... more

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Post foster kids

What happens to children caught up in the "system" once they become adults?... more

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Lutheran agency denies adoption to gay couple

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Lutheran Group Won't Let Gay Chicago Couple Adopt

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Foster Mom sent to prison for sex with boy

Georgiana Glenn Helmbolt, 47-year-old woman from Spring Lake, Minnesota, has been... more

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CBS Reports: 3 out of 10 FL Foster Children On Psych Meds (no parental consent)

TALLAHASSEE — A new study from the Florida Department of Children and Families... more

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And Whose Best Interest is This? Answer The Predator « How Child Protection Services Buys and Sells Our Children

why are they doing this and whose best interest is it really?

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Oregon - Re: Psych drug - rules tighten for foster children - "1 in 5 in foster care prescribed at least one psychiatric drug"

"I was in an abusive situation and was a kid who simply was expressing symptoms... more

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Florida Too Late in Terminating Drug Happy Psych

State let danger linger after foster kid’s drug death By FRED GRIMM Apr 21,... more

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Alternative Sentencing to Maternal Incarceration Saves Money and Families

There are now more mothers behind bars than at any other point in US history. But these mothers are invisible to most of us.

They exist mostly as caricatures of the ultimate bad mother. They are viewed as the mothers who violated the basic maternal commitment to care for their children and instead engaged in wrongful criminal activities.

But, in truth, mothers' pathways to incarceration are complex, and most often rooted in issues of sexual and physical violence. Most mothers behind bars were first victims of violence. The shared narrative arc of mothers behind bars is that of repeated experiences of brutal sexual and physical victimization.

Most of these incarcerated mothers have been convicted of a non-violent crime, and most are entering prison for the first time. These heightened rates of incarceration have wreaked havoc on family stability and child well-being as most mothers behind bars were the primary caretakers of their minor children prior to incarceration.

Maternal incarceration wrongly leaves children behind, without recognition of children's fundamental need for their mothers. Unfortunately, incarcerated women and their children are subject to federal and state correctional policies that fail to honor family bonds or recognize the distinct needs of pregnant and parenting women behind bars.

Alternative sentencing to maternal incarceration, however, allows mothers with minor children to be sentenced to community-based facilities. And what is especially needed is the alternative of family-based treatment programs. These are programs that permit mothers and their children to live together while the entire family receives therapeutic treatment to recover from addiction. More than sixty percent of mothers achieve sobriety at the end of the treatment process, and they succeed at stabilizing their families.

It is also more cost effective to support family treatment than to relegate a mother to the criminal justice system and her children to foster care. When family treatment costs are compared to the costs of incarcerating a substance abusing mother and placing her children in foster-care, the savings to the state and nation are significant. For example:

* Family treatment costs on average between $14,000 to $25,000 per family per year depending on the state (for example, in Utah it costs about $14,000 and in New York treatment is approximately $25,000).
* The average cost of one child in the foster care system is $37,000 per year.
* The average cost of state and federal incarceration of a mother is $30,000 per year.
* The Department of Justice (2002) concluded that lifetime costs of caring for drug exposed children range from $750, 000 to $1.4 million per child.

Alternative sentencing to family-based treatment programs promotes best evidence-based outcomes and cost effective approaches for mothers behind bars--and honors the sacred ties between these mothers and their children.

By Malika Saada Saar, Executive Director, The Rebecca Project for Human RightsThere are now more mothers behind bars than at any other point in US history. But... more

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Brian Gerrish (Common Purpose) explains Secret Courts / Forced Adoption

Brian Gerrish, Common Purpose, CAFCASS, CPS, DCFS, John Hemming, F4J, M4J, Family... more

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Brian Gerrish (Common Purpose) Child Stealing by the state 7

Brian Gerrish, Common Purpose, CAFCASS, CPS, DCFS, John Hemming, F4J, M4J, Family... more

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Brian Gerrish (Common Purpose) - Child Stealing by the state 4

CAFCASS, Common Purpose, CPS, DCFS, John Hemming, Brian Gerrish, Justice families,... more

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Brian Gerrish (Common Purpose) - childs stealing by the state 2

Brian Gerrish, Common Purpose, CAFCASS, CPS, DCFS, social workers, John Hemming,... more

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Brian Gerrish (Common Purpose) - Child stealing by the state

Brian Gerrish who outted Common Purpose now tackles Social Services. CAFCASS, social... more

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