A missing toddler from Florida’s foster care system was found safe in Wisconsin. The toddler was missing for four months before it was reported by a caseworker. The toddler was given to a foster mother in September ten days later, the biological mother reportedly took the toddler. At this point, it seems unclear how this toddler fell through the cracks.

The police received a report of a possible missing child at a home in Wisconsin. When the police arrived they found much more than the missing toddler. The police found themselves in a bizarre scene.... more

Foster children are being sent back to abusive homes every day. Some will live their entire childhood being abused while others end up dead. Is this protecting children? The truth is that people get so caught up with trying to save a family instead of saving the children. I am not saying that some families do not deserve the right to a reunified family, but not all. Do parents that continually abuse their children have the right to be parents with the right to continue the abuse?

Philadelphia, Child Welfare failed to protect a 9 month -old baby boy. This mother was no stranger to DHS, she had... more

Does a convicted sex offender deserve the right to parent his child in foster care? Would it have an impact if the victim was an underaged or developmentally delayed person? Should this have an impact on whether a parent can get their child back from being in foster care?

A baby girl was placed in foster care three weeks after her birth because social workers decided the parents had a limited grasp of the medical needs of their daughter. Their daughter was born with severe heart defects, a cleft lip and mild cerebral palsy. The mother threw a chair after seeing her baby... more

Another choice for the biological parents is not to take responsibility for their actions. Everyone else is to blame for them losing their children. If they cannot accept responsibility, then they cannot get help with their problems and learn how to parent their children appropriately.

These are the biological parents that do not put their children first. They deny or make excuses for the abuse to their children. Keeping up with and going to their children’s visits is not an important commitment. If they do show up for the visits, the time is spent fighting with each other, talking on a cell phone, and going on about how wrong they have been treated.

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It is so easy to say that biological parents that have children in foster care deserve extra help to get their children back. When the reality is that it is not that cut and dry. Most foster parents support family reunification when it is in the best interest of the children. Remember, the foster parents are the ones that deal with the trauma and pain that the abuse has caused these children. We see the damage first-hand that these biological parents have caused their children and the lasting impact on the children.

There is a large number of biological parents that have made some bad choices and decisions concerning the care of their children that end up in the state's custody.... more