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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People really get $900 for fostering a kid?[/quote]

Yes, in DC.  http://www.nacac.org/adoptionsubsidy/stateprofiles/dc.html shows the rates:  the lowest rate is over $1000 a month and it can go up for older or more medically complex kids.  I don't begrudge foster parents that: maintaining a separate bedroom, feeding a kid, buying clothes and shoes and school supplies, transporting to visits and therapies and school and other stuff, and actually spending the time to raise a kid who's been through a lot should be compensated well.  I would charge more than $35 a day on Air B&B to have a stranger come stay in my house, and I wouldn't have to feed that person or change its diapers.

But when you compare it to TANF, the difference is astounding.  I think there are a lot of families involved in the foster care system who wouldn't be if the parents would get even a fraction of the foster care subsidy.  A family with 2 foster kids gets at least $2021 a month. That same mom would get $427 a month in TANF if she'd given birth to those kids.  Money would not solve everything. Plenty of rich families abuse or neglect their kids.  But with an extra few hundred dollars a month, some families would have a lot more time, diapers, books, relaxation, and other things that really help.[/quote]

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