If THIS DOESN’T BREAK YOUR HEART – YOU DON’T HAVE ONE.
THE LITTLE GIRL THAT GOT TO TELL HER STORY – HALLELUJAH TO HER – GOD BLESS HER AND HER FAMILY
If THIS DOESN’T BREAK YOUR HEART – YOU DON’T HAVE ONE.
THE LITTLE GIRL THAT GOT TO TELL HER STORY – HALLELUJAH TO HER – GOD BLESS HER AND HER FAMILY
It's Almost Tuesday is a fictional story based on true events of abuse within the Texas Foster Care System. The story is written as if told by an 8 year old foster child using his exact words whenever possible.
Kids who stayed with their families were
LESS likely to become juvenile delinquents or teen mothers and more likely to hold jobs as young adults than kids who were removed into foster care.
14% OF KIDS WHO STAYED WITH FAMILY
WERE arrested at least once rather than 44% of kids who went to foster care!
33 % OF KIDS WHO STAYED WITH THEIR FAMILY
BECAME teen mothers:
but more than half (56%) of Kids WHO WENT TO FOSTER CARE BECAME TEEN MOTHERS!
33% OF KIDS WHO STAYED WITH THEIR FAMILY
held a job at least 3 months: as opposed to merely 20 % of the Kids Who Went to foster care!
Out of 500,000 children in U.S. foster care
STATISTICS SHOW that foster children are more likely than other kids to drop out of school,commit crimes, abuse drugs and become teen parents!
Teens aging out of foster care have spent nearly five years there That's twice the average length of time for all kids in the system.
Fewer than 3% of foster kids earn college degrees.
Teens in foster care are less likely to finish high school and more likely to go to prison or become homeless.
I HAVE ONE QUESTION:
WITH THESE STATISTICS - HOW CAN THE GOVERNMENT TELL US THAT CPS IS PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN?
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”I saw filthy living conditions, make-shift outhouses, unsanitary food storage, in so-called outdoor camps where children must sleep in sleeping bags - no walls, no fans, no heat - for months and months and in many cases, year after year.
That’s not care. That’s cruelty.
That’s not educating.
That’s endangering” Carol Strayhorn on Texas Foster Care System in 2004
May 2004
One Heartbroken Grandma
My recent investigation into the state’s foster care system turned this One Tough Grandma into One Heartbroken Grandma.
I am calling for a massive overhaul of the foster care system in a special report, Forgotten Children, which details a widespread crisis in the Texas foster care system.
They are everybody’s children and nobody’s children. They are the forgotten children. Some of them find homes with caring foster parents, or in treatment centers with experienced and caring providers, and some do not.
Some have been sexually, physically and emotionally abused while in the system; some have run away and joined the ranks of the missing. A few have even died at the hands of those entrusted with their care.
I am appalled at the conditions too many of our foster children must endure.
I challenge any defender of the status quo to put their child or grandchild in some of the places I’ve seen for one day, much less for a lifetime.
We must raise the bar on quality, make the foster care system more accountable, ensure the health and safety of all foster care children, and provide a brighter future for foster children.
Fortunately, I did find facilities that treat children well.
In each and every instance where children were getting the best care, the caregivers are working closely and openly with the community. Each facility needs that close relationship and support from the communities they serve. Otherwise, the children suffer.
Any society can be judged by how it treats its weakest members. My investigation shows that Texas can and must be judged harshly.
I will monitor changes made–or not made–as a result of this special report, and for the sake of our forgotten children, I will report back to the people of Texas in six weeks and six months and as long as it takes to fix this broken system and save all of our children.
Carole Keeton Strayhorn
Texas Comptroller
Senator Nancy Schafer
Hi my name is Taira and I really need your help getting my story out there it’s about Collin county cps and my 4 daughters 4072023353 god bless
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let me proudly say those are my kids, and my wife. people ask me some time why did you not speak. I well say , why they said it all. all i can say is what happen. they can tell you who it hurt and what it did. no social worker can justifies this, if they did or even tried they system would shut them down. but the social workers and the system and old Gov Rick Perry ignored this !
can every one who see’s this send it to your Representative and ask a simple why? was this done? and did they not un- sue in the end. so why did you have to hurt the kids? the twins are now in the possession of Merry Sloan, who earns 1800.00 month from the state to live in a one bed room house in sherman Texas, and feed the twin and their half sister TeeVee Dinners.. the kids are not allowed to see ANY ONE IN There family other then Merry and Merry’s Twin Sister Cherry., as long as Cherry behaves, and don’t talk about if they are ok, or ask them if Mommy hurts them, or if they talk to Aunt Cherry they have to stay home along and write , over and over how they well not tell lies to aunt cherry!- thank you CPS , who refused to investigate this issue! who tore the twins from there home after living four years with our Family.
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