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Parent Post: 02/21 What’s something that should be illegal but isn’t?
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itrustnoone
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2/22/2025, 6:30:14 AM
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I don't think this system can be reformed. It needs to be totally scrapped and something else done in it's place. When you research, you will find that the government pays social services a bonus for every child that is placed in a home for adoption. While that appears on the surface to be a good thing in order to gain long term stability for children with no parents, what it actually does is create a market for adoptable children. First, more children need to be available for adoption, so that means seizing more children from homes. Second, those children need to be adoptable. Meaning children with major emotional problems, attachment issues, behavioral issues, all things that stem from abusive homes, are NOT wanted. Those kids are not easy to place in adoptive homes. Therefore, children from more stable homes need to be taken. But they can't be rich homes where the parents can pay lawyers to fight the system. Thus, parents in lower middle class and upper lower class are the targets. False accusations are made (homeschool parents are often targets), the parents end up with a public defender, the kids float around in social services to be abused or else they are completely cut off from parents and eventually adopted. Cha-ching, bonuses all around. In the meantime, social service workers don't have time to investigate actual claims of abuse, or they don't have the inclination because they won't get the payoff. Are there decent social workers who want to make a difference? Sure, but they can't fight the system too long before they buy into the lies that this is for the good of the kids, or they get out because they can't take it anymore.
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2/22/2025, 6:48:13 AM
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Children in foster care are not placed in a home for adoption. The goal of fostering is reunification. Fostering is designed to be temporary. It is not common for fostering to result in adoption, although it does happen. It's possible that the process varies by state, but in IL the process (required certification) makes clear that parents should not foster with an expectation of adoption. I did my due diligence communicating with a local foster parent support group because I was interesting in becoming one. Can you provide any links to your sources, or at least a search term I can dig into? I'm not denying that there's foul play in the foster system, however you're coming off a bit schizo.
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2/22/2025, 4:43:31 PM
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Also, communicating with a foster parent support group is not doing your good diligence. As a homeschool parent, I was very aware of the actual cases of social service interference across the country and followed those stories closely. There is no greater fear for most parents than of having your children taken from you unjustly. This problem go far deeper than average people will ever hear about because it's a government entity and is given legal cover, immunity, and the ability to commit it's crimes under sealed records. Seriously, you need to read the report linked and then do a little dive on the circumstances of Nancy Schaefer's murder. It was not random, it was a hit job.
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2/22/2025, 4:33:43 PM
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Nothing like calling a person schizo if you actually want an answer or want an honest conversation. But for the benefit of others reading this, my reply is to look into what Nancy Schaefer found herself as a state senator. This link goes to a copy of her report, which includes the reference to the Adoption and Safe Families Act if 1974 which started the financial incentives to adopt out children. https://parentalrights.org/child_protective_services/
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