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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Mon Jan 29, 2007 at 09:23:58 AM MST
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| Mike Lange thinks it's a good idea to force the few foster parents that we are currently able to have to adopt the "values" of the unfit biological parents. This is completely insane. One foster parent writes the Gazette to explain the insanity:
In the Jan. 19 Gazette, Michael Lange, House majority leader, wants children in foster care to be raised as they should be raised - with values, he said. Did these values send them to foster care? Did the fact that they never missed school, had therapy when needed, good, clean clothes to wear to school get them into care? I and dozens of other foster parents resent the implication that we are not capable nor trained to take care of these neglected children.
I can assure you they are not put in foster homes for no reason. Our state intake workers take every precaution to get 110 percent information on why they should be taken away until parents change and get help.
Also, within 30 days of a new placement, we go to the doctor, eye doctor, dentist, find a therapist if needed, and go out and buy a wardrobe so they can go to school looking like everyone else.
After 27 years, I've seen it all and never had a child who was erroneously placed because intake workers had nothing else to do. Our social workers have visits, medical records, programs for parents to do, pick up children for visits, go to IEPs (individual education plan meetings) and doctors' visits. Where will they find time for anything else?
How many parents really care? If they did, they'd rush to complete their program, give up drugs and alcohol and put parenting first. Lange should get a bill for more money and more workers to insure a secure program for needy children.
Phyllis Fosjord
Billings
Well said. It also merits noting that foster parents like Fosjord are hard to find. We don't have charitable folks beating down the courthouse doors to become foster parents and families for these poor children. Requiring these candidates to adopt values that, frankly, did not work all that well for the unfit parents will only exascerbate this shortage. Here's hoping that most of the Montana legislature will be guided by common sense and reject Mike Lange's unbalanced proposition.
Update -- The Gazette has an editorial of about the same quality today. |
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