On AlterNet: foster care

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "foster care"

Georgia Keeps Kids Languishing in Foster Care Because Their Parents Are Undocumented

Marie Diamond, ThinkProgress. December 3, 2011.

A custody fight in Georgia illustrates the biases of a foster care system that subverts the parental rights of undocumented and non-English speaking parents.

State Should Take Obese Kids From Parents Say Doctors

AFPJuly 13, 2011.

Two US doctors published a controversial editorial this week claiming that obesity causes imminent health risks and obese children should be placed in temporary foster homes.

A New Way to Foster Parent

Helaine Olen, AlterNet. November 1, 2008.

Several cities and states now encourage close contact between foster and birth parents -- a difficult but beneficial relationship.

The FLDS Children Seized in Texas are in Their Own Private Gitmo

Richard Wexler, The Nation. May 31, 2008.

Foster care is a toxic intervention, to be used sparingly. In the case of the Yearning for Zion ranch, Texas prescribed megadoses of foster care.

Too Poor to Parent

Jill Filipovic, Feministe. May 26, 2008.

Why does society blame black mothers for one of our nation's pressing social ills?