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RE: Beware Of Greeks Bearing Gifts: Family First Prevention Services Act of 2017
Oh wow, thanks for dissecting it a little for us. I just heard about this and I'm just now looking into all of it. So if your child is taken from you and you want them with family members, those family members have to meet certain requirements that foster families must meet? Does that mean like having plug covers in every electric plug in the home - I had a friend who was told he had to have that to be able to foster to adopt. I wonder where the requirements are written to be a foster parent. Anyway, it doesn't sound good if they tell you which expert you have to use and which professional counselor will tell you if you're worthy enough to keep your child or not. Yikes. Thanks for sharing this info.
I'm sure it varies (the requirements) from state to state... but yes, in order for relatives to get temp custody of the children, they have to meet the same requirements as any other foster home. In fact they will probably have to be licensed, but I'm not sure. It would take the onus off the state should something happen to the kid.
Wow, so even if you make a list of other people you want your child to go to if something happens, more than likely they aren't going to be sent there because the people won't be deemed "qualified." That's nuts if that is the case. I've heard from a lot of people to make a list of where to send the kids if they are taken but I never really thought that CPS would actually send the kids there. Maybe this is confirmation of that.
CPS rarely if ever sends kids where you want them... there's no money for them in that. The whole system is rotten. They send kids to foster homes (most of whom aren't competent to take care of a canary). There the kids are abused, medicated (that means more $$$) and God knows what else. CPS has never been about children, except as sources of revenue.