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Why Are Poor Parents Often Assumed to be Neglectful Parents?
Stop and think about it. A kid without a coat in winter could be neglected by their parents. Or they could be from a poor family who is struggling to keep the lights on and food on the table. Coats aren’t cheap (even second-hand ones can be pricey!). So which is it? And what should…
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A Gun-at-School Incident Could Lead to CPS Interventions For One Michigan Family
This story is somewhat hard to believe. Usually, when you hear about a child bringing a gun to school, it’s a story of fear and disillusionment, social angst and rage. But in this case, the child who showed up at school with a gun in their backpack had no idea it was even there! And…
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How The Welfare System Makes it Harder For Battered Mothers to Seek Help! (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. We’ve been looking at a travesty happening in different parts of the country, and right here in Michigan, where battered mothers desperately trying to escape their abusers are punished by the state. And the methods of punishment used by CPS? Only the worst and most painful thing you…
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How The Welfare System Makes it Harder For Battered Mothers to Seek Help! (Pt 1)
The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform has a very interesting, and honestly very sad story, about a policy California enforces that sounds unpleasantly like something you’d find right here in Michigan. The story tracks a mother named Ingrid Archie who was subject to regular assault from her domestic partner. Archie did everything she could…
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Foster Families Face Unique Issues That Many Biological Families Don’t Encounter (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. We’ve been looking at some of the challenges that foster families face that biological families usually don’t encounter. In the previous article we looked at two very common issues, namely the behavioral and medical issues that foster kids often suffer as a result of trauma, and the…
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Foster Families Face Unique Issues That Many Biological Families Don’t Encounter (Pt 1)
For most biological parents who are only raising their own kids, they decide what they want their children’s lives to look like, and they base their rules and family policies on that projection. “Only organic food”, “an emphasis on education”, “must speak a second language” or “limits on screen time” are good examples. You get…
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Cultural Misunderstandings Can Lead to CPS Interventions in Michigan. (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. We’ve been discussing the difficult subject of CPS interventions, but with the added spin of how they affect immigrant and refugee communities. As we mentioned in the previous article, many of these people arrive here from other cultural backgrounds having suffered incredible tragedies and losses. They have very…
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Cultural Misunderstandings Can Lead to CPS Interventions in Michigan. (Pt 1)
Michigan is a melting pot of cultures, ethnicities, and racial variety. Between the extensive immigrant and resettled refugee populations, and the many people living here whose parents and grandparents came here from other countries, you’d be hard-pressed to not find just about every corner of the world represented. But while the rich diversity of cultures,…
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Studies Show Mediation Results in Faster, Better Outcomes in CPS Cases
Earlier this year the Michigan Supreme Court released the results of a study that evaluated Michigan’s Child Protection Mediation (CPM) process when used as an alternative means of achieving permanency in child welfare cases. (The term ‘permanency’ in this case means children being returned to their permanent homes where they live with their families, as…
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How Financial Aid Scams Could Hurt Foster Kids in The Future! (Pt 2)
Hi there and welcome back. We’ve been discussing the many and various scams exposed this year where parents break the law and engage in ethically dubious practices to get their kids into college. But the most recent scam, where parents from the suburbs of Chicago assign guardianship of their teenage children to less wealthy families…
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