Does the skin color affect an abused child being left in a home to endure more abuse? Should the color of a person matter when removing a child to protect then from abuse? Should it matter that the foster care system in the area has a high percentage for a particular race? Are they sacrificing the safety for children to make their numbers of black children in foster care look better?

In California, Contra Costa County, there is a severe division in what is happening with their foster care. Caseworkers are reporting that they cannot remove black children under the age of 3 without a supervisor’s approval. They have two different standards of removal.

Reportedly children have died when left in their homes, and not being protected from the Child Protective Services.

They trying a different strategy, by starting a program called “Team Decision Making”. A mother in a Richmond case was offered this program (you can click on the link below to read the entire article with information on “Team Decision Making”). Now a black 8 year old little boy lays dead, from a system that failed him.

When do the racial lines cease and the children’s rights begin?

A child deserves to be protected without thought to race, gender, age, religion, or finances?
A caseworker should be allowed to protect a child without the fear or losing their jobs or retaliation.

Yes, the system needs to be changed, but not at the expense of any child.

I have just touched a few points of this story, so clink on the link below to get the full story.


http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/16280801.htm?source=rss&channel=cctimes_news


“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Mohandas K. Gandhi