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An organization to help and supervise parents is necessary, especially to save children. The current system has an overwhelming failure rate and that needs to be brought to people’s attention and as taxpayers, we need to demand change.
There are thousands of families who are unfairly targeted and there are thousands and thousands of children who have their childhood disrupted and destroyed by a policy that forces children to live with strangers for long periods of time… often more than one foster family claiming this is better than forcing parents to accept and follow the help and advice they need. There is no question that CAS saves children from abusive or life threatening home environments. But what do they do to help that child after saving them?
One of the most biased and unethical policy the CAS enforces is that they will not provide financial assistance to family members who are willing to assume guardianship of children while parents are being investigated by CAS. This is why tragically so many children from low-income families are separated and scarred for life by a CAS investigation. In order to qualify for financial assistance (food, clothing, medical, day-care etc.) the family member must yield to the same training as other foster parents and are encouraged to be willing to accept other children like any other foster parent. Many grandparents and aunts and uncles would gladly support grandchild or niece/nephew however require assistance with child care costs. They cannot afford to quit their job to care for their family member and find it difficult to commit to foster-parent training in an already busy life. By the time the family qualifies for “foster-parent financial assistance” several months may have gone by and the child is needlessly separated and traumatized. This scenario is so common I would feel confident calling it the norm. I would like to also point out that foster parents find dealing with CAS just as frustrating and exhausting as parents. Society often loses loving and committed foster parents due to their unwillingness to deal with CAS anymore.
I find it baffling that child psychologists have not protested these practices based on the physiological trauma this inflicts on children.
If our school system demonstrated an overwhelming failure rate where the majority of students who were released to society are uneducated, taxpayers would be outraged and demanding change. Our abused and neglected children deserve the same consideration and assistance.
People can believe that this couple deserved to lose custody of their child, however being separated from parents is not in the best interest child. It is in the best interest of the child to have parents who have the tools, experience, education, medical assistance and financial assistance to care for the child. These services are available through the taxes we pay. Unfortunately too many organizations with their separate policies and procedures make it impossible for citizens to utilize them.
CAS often works with Ontario Works and Sudbury Housing and Child Care Subsidy and dozens of other agencies to provide emergency assistance to families in need. The problem is how they arbitrailiy determine who is in need. In my opinion, the children mentioned in this article would have been a suitable candidate for emergency help. CAS had four months while the infant remained in hospital to work with Sudbury housing to find this family shelter… because THAT is in the best interest of the children, especially a sick infant. They chose not to.
Regardless of the character of the parents or policies of CAS, this baby was denied its right to bond with the mother who carried him in her body and denied the right to be sick and die surrounded by its biological family. I am an advocate of children’s rights and CAS policies are not about the rights and needs of the children.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
An organization to help and supervise parents is necessary, especially to save children. The current system has an overwhelming failure rate and that needs to be brought to people’s attention and as taxpayers, we need to demand change.
There are thousands of families who are unfairly targeted and there are thousands and thousands of children who have their childhood disrupted and destroyed by a policy that forces children to live with strangers for long periods of time… often more than one foster family claiming this is better than forcing parents to accept and follow the help and advice they need. There is no question that CAS saves children from abusive or life threatening home environments. But what do they do to help that child after saving them?
One of the most biased and unethical policy the CAS enforces is that they will not provide financial assistance to family members who are willing to assume guardianship of children while parents are being investigated by CAS. This is why tragically so many children from low-income families are separated and scarred for life by a CAS investigation. In order to qualify for financial assistance (food, clothing, medical, day-care etc.) the family member must yield to the same training as other foster parents and are encouraged to be willing to accept other children like any other foster parent. Many grandparents and aunts and uncles would gladly support grandchild or niece/nephew however require assistance with child care costs. They cannot afford to quit their job to care for their family member and find it difficult to commit to foster-parent training in an already busy life. By the time the family qualifies for “foster-parent financial assistance” several months may have gone by and the child is needlessly separated and traumatized. This scenario is so common I would feel confident calling it the norm. I would like to also point out that foster parents find dealing with CAS just as frustrating and exhausting as parents. Society often loses loving and committed foster parents due to their unwillingness to deal with CAS anymore.
I find it baffling that child psychologists have not protested these practices based on the physiological trauma this inflicts on children.
If our school system demonstrated an overwhelming failure rate where the majority of students who were released to society are uneducated, taxpayers would be outraged and demanding change. Our abused and neglected children deserve the same consideration and assistance.
People can believe that this couple deserved to lose custody of their child, however being separated from parents is not in the best interest child. It is in the best interest of the child to have parents who have the tools, experience, education, medical assistance and financial assistance to care for the child. These services are available through the taxes we pay. Unfortunately too many organizations with their separate policies and procedures make it impossible for citizens to utilize them.
CAS often works with Ontario Works and Sudbury Housing and Child Care Subsidy and dozens of other agencies to provide emergency assistance to families in need. The problem is how they arbitrailiy determine who is in need. In my opinion, the children mentioned in this article would have been a suitable candidate for emergency help. CAS had four months while the infant remained in hospital to work with Sudbury housing to find this family shelter… because THAT is in the best interest of the children, especially a sick infant. They chose not to.
Regardless of the character of the parents or policies of CAS, this baby was denied its right to bond with the mother who carried him in her body and denied the right to be sick and die surrounded by its biological family. I am an advocate of children’s rights and CAS policies are not about the rights and needs of the children.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net