l****e
发帖数: 25 | 1 从他们身上敛财，成为当地政府收益，最终这些失去亲生父母监管的孩子几乎全成为社
会问题。每时每刻都有近50万儿童在这种制度下生活。。。
Consider the daunting statistics facing foster children across the country.
According to past studies, twice as many foster children suffer from post-
traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as Iraq war veterans; over one-third of
children aging out of foster care never graduate from high school; only 3
percent complete college; less than half find employment; 85 percent suffer
from mental health issues; over one-third are homeless; and almost 75
percent of males become incarcerated by age 26.
这就是美国的未来。 | l****e
发帖数: 25 | 2 The Maryland Department of Human Resources (DHR) hired a private company to
help search for poor foster children who are disabled or have dead parents -
- in order to take their money for state revenue.
Under this “revenue maximization” strategy, DHR requires its foster care
agencies to target children who might be determined disabled or whose
parents have died, apply for Social Security disability and survivor
benefits on their behalf, and then apply to gain control over the children’
s money as representative payee. Then, although obligated to only use the
benefits for the children’s best interests, the agencies ignore their
fiduciary role and take every payment from the children. DHR will even take
Veteran's Assistance benefits from foster children whose parents died in the
military. | l***o
发帖数: 7937 | 3 祖国喊你回家参军呢，响应祖国召唤，赶紧打包回国！
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suffer
【在 l****e 的大作中提到】
: 从他们身上敛财，成为当地政府收益，最终这些失去亲生父母监管的孩子几乎全成为社
: 会问题。每时每刻都有近50万儿童在这种制度下生活。。。
: Consider the daunting statistics facing foster children across the country.
: According to past studies, twice as many foster children suffer from post-
: traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as Iraq war veterans; over one-third of
: children aging out of foster care never graduate from high school; only 3
: percent complete college; less than half find employment; 85 percent suffer
: from mental health issues; over one-third are homeless; and almost 75
: percent of males become incarcerated by age 26.
: 这就是美国的未来。
| S******r
发帖数: 4421 | 4 你愿意让你的后代生活在这样的国度吗？
太残忍了你
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suffer
【在 l****e 的大作中提到】
: 从他们身上敛财，成为当地政府收益，最终这些失去亲生父母监管的孩子几乎全成为社
: 会问题。每时每刻都有近50万儿童在这种制度下生活。。。
: Consider the daunting statistics facing foster children across the country.
: According to past studies, twice as many foster children suffer from post-
: traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as Iraq war veterans; over one-third of
: children aging out of foster care never graduate from high school; only 3
: percent complete college; less than half find employment; 85 percent suffer
: from mental health issues; over one-third are homeless; and almost 75
: percent of males become incarcerated by age 26.
: 这就是美国的未来。
| l****e
发帖数: 25 | 5 2006年数据
Facts on Foster Care in America
By ABC NEWS
May 30, 2006
Each week, nearly 60,000 children in the United States are reported as
abused or neglected, with nearly 900,000 confirmed abuse victims in 2004.
About 520,000 of those children end up in foster care each year -- double
the number 25 years ago. Approximately 800,000 children every year come in
contact with the foster care system.
Watch ABC News' and "Primetime's" special series on foster care, "A Call to
Action: Saving Our Children," beginning Thursday, June 1.
Despite more than a decade of intended reform, the nation's foster care
system is still overcrowded and rife with problems. But taxpayers are
spending $22 billion a year -- or $40,000 a child -- on foster care programs.
The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn of
the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child psychologist
who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blown up.
He's most critical of the way foster care gets funded by the federal
government -- $5 billion that goes mostly, he says, to keeping kids in
foster care.
There are no provisions for treatment, prevention, family support, or aging
out -- just for supporting things as they are. He wants to rethink foster
care on a national level.
Foster Care Statistics:
On September 30, 2004, 518,000 children were in the U.S. foster care system
. Most children are placed in foster care temporarily due to parental abuse
or neglect.
A record 304,000 children entered the system in 2004, according to one
study. Much of the rise was due to methamphetamine use. Experts estimate
that 80 to 90 percent of foster care placements can be traced to substance
abuse.
About 40,000 infants are placed in foster care every year.
126,000 children are currently available for adoption.
On average, children stay in the system for almost three years (31 months)
before either being reunited with their families or adopted. Almost 20
percent wait five years or more. Children have on average three different
foster care placements. Frequent moves in and out of the homes of strangers
can be profoundly unsettling for children, and it is not uncommon to hear of
children who have been in 20 or 30 different homes. Many have been
separated not only from their parents, but from their siblings.
More than 20,000 children each year never leave the system -- they remain
in foster care until they "age out."
Thirty percent of the homeless in America and some 25 percent of those in
prison were once in foster care.
44 percent (or about 241,000 children) have reunification with their birth
families as their case goal.
48 percent were in foster family homes (non-relative), 24 percent were in
relative foster homes, 18 percent were in group homes or institutions, 4
percent were in pre-adoptive homes, and 6 percent were in other placement
types.
The average age of a foster child is 10. Half are 10 or under.
40 percent of foster children are white; 34 are black; 18 percent are
Hispanic.
Case workers burn out and leave the profession in very high numbers. The
annual turnover rate in the child welfare workforce is more than 20 percent.
The recommended number of cases for a social worker is 17. In some states,
the number is three or four times that number.
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: 祖国喊你回家参军呢，响应祖国召唤，赶紧打包回国！
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| m*********w
发帖数: 376 | 6 耗子家的孩子如果能被领养，还可以活得相对正常一些
雅图的cps太不负责任了，让这可怜的孩子回到那个变态的家
白白 浪费老百姓税款 | l***o
发帖数: 7937 | 7 是啊，所以祖国、党妈喊你赶紧回家。
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【在 l****e 的大作中提到】
: 2006年数据
: Facts on Foster Care in America
: By ABC NEWS
: May 30, 2006
: Each week, nearly 60,000 children in the United States are reported as
: abused or neglected, with nearly 900,000 confirmed abuse victims in 2004.
: About 520,000 of those children end up in foster care each year -- double
: the number 25 years ago. Approximately 800,000 children every year come in
: contact with the foster care system.
: Watch ABC News' and "Primetime's" special series on foster care, "A Call to
| l****e
发帖数: 25 | 8 In a Year, Child-Protective Services Checked Up on 3.2 Million Children
2.5 million of those kids were declared 'non-victims.' Another 686,000 were
'abused' or 'neglected.' And an estimated 1,640 kids died as a result.
CONOR FRIEDERSDORF
: 是啊，所以祖国、党妈喊你赶紧回家。
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【在 l***o 的大作中提到】
: 是啊，所以祖国、党妈喊你赶紧回家。
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