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In reply to the discussion: Fall on Hard Times, Have Your Kids Taken Away? How America Treats Poor Parents Like Criminals [View all]Fight2Win
(157 posts)31. yes, that's exactly it, and the 'treatment' they get in foster care?
Many are fundie nut jobs trying to make a profit off of the government, training kids for ??
Government gives foster care kids money which new parents take, free health care etc. What a deal.
If parents could figure out a way to become their own kids foster parents, there wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
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Fall on Hard Times, Have Your Kids Taken Away? How America Treats Poor Parents Like Criminals [View all]
xchrom
Feb 2013
OP
They put out an arrest warrant for him for *can't remember what the charge was
Viva_La_Revolution
Feb 2013
#23
We've been arguing that our state lost jurisdiction when the family moved to another state
no_hypocrisy
Feb 2013
#44
The difference between our welfare and other countries' child allowances is that
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#32
Some of the street kids I worked with had been through the foster care system
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#21
Similar to the corrupt judge sentencing kids to for profit incarceration, $$ motivates $$
me b zola
Feb 2013
#25