"The foster care system is totally obsolete. Kids are being killed, abused and even experimented on.At age 18, they are aged out of the system, they give them $5 and a bag of lunch and say go live your life. Most of these kids end up in trouble, jail, or a mental institution. All the kids in the group homes, juvenile detention centers and over half of the people in prison overall come from the foster care system." By Darryl "DMC" McDaniels
"The state is now more involved than it has ever been in the raising of children, and children are now more neglected, abused, and mistreated than they have been in our time. This is not a coincidence, and, with all due respect, I am here to tell you: It does not take a village to raise a child. - It takes a family." - By Senator Robert Dole
"... these children throw their despair and distrust into a black plastic trash bag, along with their few belongings, and head off to the next place... the next let-down. They are abused and neglected long before they ever reach our abusive and neglectful foster care system - and once in, things often only get worse. Children are dying, Mr. Speaker, inside and out... and it's our fault." By Tom DeLay
"The foster care system is totally obsolete. Kids are being killed, abused and even experimented on.At age 18, they are aged out of the system, they give them $5 and a bag of lunch and say go live your life. Most of these kids end up in trouble, jail, or a mental institution. All the kids in the group homes, juvenile detention centers and over half of the people in prison overall come from the foster care system." By Darryl "DMC" McDaniels
"The state is now more involved than it has ever been in the raising of children, and children are now more neglected, abused, and mistreated than they have been in our time. This is not a coincidence, and, with all due respect, I am here to tell you: It does not take a village to raise a child. - It takes a family." - By Senator Robert Dole
"... these children throw their despair and distrust into a black plastic trash bag, along with their few belongings, and head off to the next place... the next let-down. They are abused and neglected long before they ever reach our abusive and neglectful foster care system - and once in, things often only get worse. Children are dying, Mr. Speaker, inside and out... and it's our fault." By Tom DeLay
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4:49 pm PDT, May 3,
Sarah Benvie, Minnesota
I never knew the meaning of unconditional love until I became a mother!! I was blessed to have four beautiful, amazing, happy children of my own... I worshiped every second of their existance! Never could I imagine what was instore for them! To be taken from the only family you know, the ones who are to protect you from harm, sadness and all the evils of this cruel world... What then?? I have lost my own self since Demetria, Dadreyona, Adrien and Adonas Benvie were taken, now how am I supposed to believe they are okay?? I can only hope that one day very soon I will be in the right place at the right time for us to meet again, before anymore hurt comes to them!!! |