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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]Bibliovore
(185 posts)That's... almost as mind-boggling as the rest of it.
Not unsurprisingly, it sounds like a lot of problems are combining to make a bad situation worse instead of better.
More funding for programs like job training and housing and so on should be available to everyone who needs them, but they can be a matter of life or death for victims of domestic violence, many of whom stay in dangerous situations because they don't think they can afford to leave. Maybe that's an avenue through which a push for specific funding increases might have more legs; it's harder to say no to battered spouses and their kids than to "entitlements."
Specific regulations or legislature to prevent anyone from profiting off of removing kids from their homes might be worth writing to lawmakers about, too.