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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a tragedy in so many ways.  I can't help but think CPS should automatically take custody of homeless kids and find them foster care.  I have read too much about the mom and grandma to have sympathy.  She was horrible and abusive.  We have got to stop making reunification the goal and start cutting parental rights.  Is you read the moms FB page you will be furious, bragging about the jelly Hanson jackets and Jordan's on her kids fit while living in a shelter.  Where did she get that money?  Drugs or sex? And what did she sell her daughter for and why is she protecting the abductor.    No children should be allowed in a shelter. And relisha should have been taken from her mom permanently five years ago.   I worked in social services for one year and I never saw one mom come close to being rehabilitated but the kids always go,back.  It's horrible.[/quote]

You know Relish Rudd's mother was removed from her home as a child  and bounced around to different foster homes and group homes. It did not adequately prepare her to be a functional adult.

I think relisha Rudd story shines a light on the fact that there are no easy solutions to resolving generational poverty and the traumas that come along with it.[/quote]

Birth control would solve a lot of problems of generational poverty.  I was a social worker for one year and quit because I realized it was pointless.  I would see women who might start to get a leg up and then tell me they were pregnant again, quit their minimum wage job and apply for more benefits.  As a society, we need to provide free birth control to every woman and make it available in the community. Seriolusy, there needs to be a one stop shop located in probably 20 places around the City, where a woman could see and OB and get a prescription filled in one place at no cost.  You would think a city as progressive as DC would offer free IUDs to every poor woman.  Its next to impossible to help a single person in extreme poverty and when you throw kids into, its never ever going to change.  Repeat over and over.  Every woman receiving TANF should be required to have an IUD.  Not politically correct to say that but it would do more to help than just about anything else. [/quote]

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