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 AlterNet: PEEK. May 26, 2008.

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