Reply #66: They do it all the time

[mntleo2]

...as a matter of fact they will probably say now that the child and mother are not bonded and therefore it is a legal reason to terminate the mother's rights.

They are harvesting children from low income families all the time while cutting services that would keep these kids in their homes. Hundreds of thousands of children are taken every year even though they know for a fact that children will thrive better even with a mom who is drug addicted, than being taken. http://nccpr.info/the-evidence-is-in-foster-care-vs-keeping-families-together-the-definitive-studies/

Children have a 5-7 X more likely chance to be abused in foster care than if returned home and the family given services. They know that it is literally 1000% less to return a child home but they will lose all their funding if they do. Scroll down to see page 13 of this Annie E. Casey study done 2 years ago to show this 1000% higher cost to take kids than to send them home: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.childtrends.org%2FFiles%2F%2FChild_Trends-2009_02_17_FR_CWFinancePaper.pdf

The reason we spend so much more to take kids than to return them home? Because if CPS returns this child home, not only will they lose the $8-10,000 a month they collect for keeping this child, they will lose any future funding as well. This is thanks to the conditions under Title IV, and the taking of about 1/3 of the TANF, food stamps and Medicaid for low income families where they accuse these families of neglect and maltreatment because they cannot afford housing, adequate food, medical for themselves (where the parent gets sick or hurt on the job), or childcare.

I am not making this up.

Oh and many say, "Well there are laws in most states against taking children because the families are poor ..." Yes there are, but the conditions of poverty ARE quite legal reason to take kids at the drop of a hat. Then spend all that money on themselves, to hell with the kid's family because Family Preservation is not even a blip on their conscience.

Sadly,
Cat in Seattle