I fear many children who do not need to be separated from their parents will suffer the way my friends and I have. Instead, whenever it s possible, their natural mothers and fathers should be given help to care for them properly. More emphasis should be placed on family preservation. Preventive services should be provided to families in crisis. If the city thinks a child is at risk, it can step in and help the family with counseling, therapy, drug rehabilitation, parenting techniques and whatever else is necessary.
Parents nowadays are more likely than ever before to lose their children to foster care.
This is a direct result of the ignorant attitudes of reporters, editorial writers and politicians. Foster care has become a political football game of kicking around children and their families. Deranged mothers are destroying their children s lives. Rescuing a child is much more complicated than just taking her away from her mother. This page maintained by David Cameron .