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[quote=Anonymous]all of you who think more kids (poor, black, or whatever) should be taken away from their families have no idea what foster care is like.  The difference between the average foster family for DC kids (many of whom are placed in MD now) and the average birth family from which kids are removed is a LOT smaller than you'd think.  I know kids in foster care who live with folks with criminal backgrounds, low education, and a whole mess of other problems.  Some are loving and some are not.  Some are amazing advocates for their kids and most are not. Removing kids from their birth families is sometimes needed, but expanding it is not the answer.  Plus, it is hugely expensive.  Stipends of $900+ a month per kid, day care vouchers, Medicaid, counseling, judges, social workers, CASAs, GALs, educational advocates, lawyers for birth parents, court reporters--the list goes on.  For some families involved in the foster care system, if you just took all the money spent on the family by CFSA and related entities and mailed them a check each month, you would never have a problem with them again.  And for some families if you gave them a million dollars a day, they would still beat or neglect their kids. [/quote]

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