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Why Human Traffickers Prey on Foster-Care Kids

10 Comments

  • becky12457
    Posted January 26, 2015 at 3:40 pm

    Believe government funded residential treatment centers like Children’s Advocacy Centers should replace the foster care system. Wouldn’t this be more feasible for overseeing, governing and staffing?

  • Roberta Morrison
    Posted February 4, 2015 at 8:25 pm

    Very sad, but really, can you separate the money from the kid, when the federal government pays the state for every child taken into care? Medicaid pays for whatever medications/treatments recommended for these children? Adopters get a monthly check, for every kid they adopt? Let’s face it, everything about these children is geared towards getting money; no wonder they feel they’ve got a price tag, and exist to give other people money. It’s the biggest problem with our current children’s service departments, and really needs to be replaced with a system that is really designed to help the children that need the help.

  • Pamela Goodman
    Posted April 20, 2016 at 5:25 pm

    It is also important that children are not removed unless absolutely necessary. Drug addicted parents or those with mental issues parents not in agreement with doctors and hospitals and wanting second opinions, home school kids,should not have children removed just because, but the services should be offered to children while the children are with their parents. This will leave foster homes open to truly needy children. There will be more money because children will be in home and monitored and case workers will have more time to spend on the kids instead of in court prosecuting the innocent parents. There will be less of a need for more homes and more case workers.

    • Sony
      Posted February 5, 2017 at 1:57 pm

      Extremely true and very well put.

  • My Two Cents
    Posted August 17, 2017 at 4:10 pm

    Low life people will always pray on the unfortunate. Doesn’t anyone want a happy stable healthy family anymore? Foster care has many problems. Parents are thrown into it w/out proper training on attachment issues. The home becomes a living hell. These kids are difficult and need committed therapeutic parents. If more training is required then you will weed out those who are not truly committed to the job of helping these kids. It also might open the eyes of the ones just taking advantage and only doing it for the money. Inform FPs about RAD. Train them how to parent these kids. It’s different than other kids. There should be more services for respite and therapy and there should be more strict requirements to become a FP.

  • Karen
    Posted August 18, 2017 at 10:16 am

    I believe foster parents need to have a certain income and education level to qualify. The issue remains though of the shortages of families willing to step up to the plate and help nurture and heal children and birth families. To survive as a foster family, You have to be driven with a passion because the system still has flaws which can make fostering very frustrating , stressful and time consuming.
    I get tired of the bad rap foster families get as there are so many wonderful, healthy foster families out there that go through a lot of blood, sweat and tears for the sake of healing children.

  • Maureen
    Posted October 1, 2017 at 1:31 am

    I live in Connecticut and i became a child protective services and child mental health care advocate following a needless CPS case against my husband and I rooted in pursuing access to spevialized psychiatric care for our youngest kinship adopted daughter. I recognize several policy and protocol flaws and juvenile court mechanism limitations, which together take kids down a foster care path for no other reason than the extortion of federal funding. From 2011 to mid 2016 860 ‘uncared for’ neglect petitions were filed putting 3 kids per week into foster care and group homes as an alternative to recieving psychiatric provider recommended higher level treatment. At risk kids put in riskier placements to save a buck.

    Connecticut masks its child welfare failures by skewing the data it releases for public consumption, defunding programs that parents used to find valuable and restricting access to intensive specialized child psychiatric residential treatment centers both in and out of state. The result is an uptick in kids going into state custody, children being unnecessarily harmed in care and parental alienation. Healthy adoptive families are at an especially high risk of child distuption as CT”s child welfare system prefers to remove adopted children from loving homes than to support access to high need trauma and attachment disruption therapeutic treatments. Doing so sets high risk kids up to fail and violates both parent and child rights, and prepares them for the track of prostitution. These :stanfard practices”, and others occur because best interest of the child is secondary to best interest of the state’s revenue projections.

  • Joseph
    Posted October 1, 2017 at 2:17 pm

    And yet the decline of the younger generation in caring ability shows a grim future, where people don’t care if there’s trafficking here. Hopefully there’s enough good people to get some reactions for these horrors.

  • Caleb Yanno
    Posted January 16, 2019 at 5:46 pm

    This is a huge issue that has been going on for years that most people seem to simply sweep under the rug. It’s extremely sad and disheartening how these children are put into unfortunate situations for reasons that aren’t even their fault and then they are used for money and taken advantage of without ever having a chance at a normal life. I’ve researched this topic and found many other startling statistics as well. Here are a few that may grab people’s attention. Nearly 80% of people who are incarcerated in the U.S came from foster care, and nearly 60% of the homeless population are people who were in foster care and less than 4% will ever get a college degree despite the fact that free college education is available for them. This is such a huge problem in our country that many people don’t know the extent of and has yet to be addressed because these numbers increase year by year. I believe if this issue was communicated better and brought to peoples attention that there would be a huge growth in support of children in foster care and issues such as this could be eliminated. We see commercials all of the time for animal charities and things like that, which is great but how often do we hear about children that are in need? That’s why it’s our job as those who do know to spread the word as much as possible. I don’t know the exact answer for stopping child sex trafficking, but I do believe that if these children are provided with the love and care that they need that they would not be sucked into such a horrible life.

  • BW
    Posted November 4, 2020 at 2:52 am

    I once heard a foster mom brag about how much money she got per child. How disgusting it has become!

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