Poverty in the US: main reason for the removal of children from parents

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Жыл бұрын

Child welfare systems in the United States too often treat poverty as the basis for charges of neglect and decisions to remove children from their parents. The system’s disproportionate impact on Black and Indigenous families and people living in poverty, and the sheer number of children removed unjustly, make this a national crisis warranting immediate attention and action.
Conditions of poverty, such as a family’s struggle to pay rent or maintain housing, are misconstrued as neglect, and interpreted as evidence of an inability and lack of fitness to parent. We found significant racial and socioeconomic disparities in child welfare involvement. Black children are almost twice as likely to experience investigations as white children and more likely to be separated from their families.
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@NativeHoney608 9 ай бұрын

As a juvenile justice system survivor and brand new Master of Social Work student, I'm so thankful that the tide is finally turning away from punitive approaches, towards trauma informed care! Let me tell ya, the 90s were rough!😳

@87clits 9 ай бұрын

Good luck with that degree, this is why we fall into that line of work.

@dg2517 Жыл бұрын

My mom had schizophrenia and she beat the shit out of us. I loved when they would visit because that’s the only time she was nice to us.

@mikeodee1164 10 ай бұрын

what many severely sick in the head and very dangerous so called normal people did to me and many others is one thousand times worse your lucky u was only beat up the severely sick in the head and very dangerous so called normal people caused me severe harm which makes me suffer severely for the rest of my life what they did to me is alot worse then murder they caused me severe harm when i was 15 years old

@beaulieuc8910 6 ай бұрын

well said, not all mothers are kind

@judyheller Жыл бұрын

This is very biased. This individual case may be true, but I feel that most social workers do their jobs. I would like to see the other side of this. Children who are removed because of their parents drug use.

@williamwong4040 10 ай бұрын

It is hard to imagine why people would want to have kids they are not capable of caring for. In the end it is them who would suffer.

@cordelllongstreath741 6 ай бұрын

Says the asian

@beaulieuc8910 6 ай бұрын

well said. parents can see poverty, homelessness and drugs, booze addiction, crime and think yes, let's bring kids into this mess. narcissisic parents couldn't care less

@rubytuesday1316 24 күн бұрын

Indeed! We aren't in stone ages!

@charde9739 12 күн бұрын

@@cordelllongstreath741 says the bigot.

@coreyanderson7424 Жыл бұрын

Stop paying Foster parents who, 70 percent of them, don't give a damn about those children, like, start trying to eliminate the need for them, and instead, put a budget for helping single mothers (for example)who involuntary lost job or hours, and help the people who are trying to help themselves! Not everyone has free section 8, some people have to work. Give them grants to learn a trade with a community college, and or a certification, and eliminate each barrier and watch what happens. People who owe child support, people who work but are affected by covid, people with limited education beyond high school, and who work,nonetheless, deserve a break! Don't get us wrong, we appreciate food stamps, and medicaid. It has dramatically improved some lives, for sure, but we need to move up and out of poverty.

@monal83022 Жыл бұрын

I lived in extreme poverty in the beginning of my life. The issue is that many of the people having kids were horribly traumatized from their own upbringing and shouldn’t have kids until their own issues were resolved. Money had nothing to do with it. If the government helped more it would still be a few generations before people would be mentally able to give their all to child rearing. My mothers neighbor drowned her child in ice water, more money wouldn’t have helped. Foster parents with a good background are more equipped to care for children.

@changemymindthen Жыл бұрын

The problem starts with other people. Anyone and I mean anyone can call cps on you and make up any lie they want to spit out their mouth and you have a cps worker knocking on your door. That's the first problem!!!!

@wendyshoowaiching4161 Жыл бұрын

Govt is spending money to take away and provide basic living to the children, why not give the money directly to the parents for their child food cost, provide school education and free registration child health care to their parents and benefits parents can continue to be near their child and at the same time able to provide care for their child. No policies should separate a child from their parents with the excuse of poverty

@monal83022 Жыл бұрын

It’s not the poverty that’s the issue it’s the trauma from their own childhood causing them to harm their own children. More money wouldn’t make parents stop beating their kids, this coming from someone who saw it first hand in an extremely impoverished neighborhood.

@charde9739 12 күн бұрын

Because the government didn’t tell them to have the kids in the first place. because remember y’all don’t want the government in charge of y’all right to pop out these babies whenever you want to. Who in their right mind makes such a huge decision and expects everyone else to pick up the slack I mean where do you think the government gets the money from?

@charde9739 12 күн бұрын

⁠@@monal83022 absolutely. Is this notion being spread that a broken woman will never know true love until she birthed a broken child. That if you can’t control anything else in your life, you can control your right to birth a human that you can’t even take care of.

@bookmagicroe9553 Жыл бұрын

If the government gave the families the money they give to foster parents, the parents might be able to make ends meet. But we are a society that says we value families, but are very tightfisted when it comes to financial support. It is the dreaded word "welfare".

@bobsaget8745 Жыл бұрын

Population Control

@kg4021 Жыл бұрын

If you can't afford to raise children then stop having them. I was forced (raped) into having a child and later he didn't pay his child support, nor was I given government assistance (welfare). I got off my rear and worked many years and hours to fully support my daughter. If I could do it... Then others should also without my $$$ to help them.

@tanyaslater9604 Жыл бұрын

It's not just poor families. They tear them away from grandparents. CPS needs to be abolished. Tell me how a 5 minute investigation tells you what is best for the children. Families spend thousands of dollars trying to get the kids back and they are shut out. They falsify drug tests and are very underhanded. Too much funding that's why no one does anything about it. I'd hate to be them.on Judgement Day. They hurt more than they help.

@user-fiF5ei8tyah Жыл бұрын

@@kg4021that is not the answer. That is a lazy way of thinking and dangerously close to Malthusian ideology and Eugenics. I'm truly and deeply sorry for what happened to you. I wish you all the best.

@HeatherSmith-momof4 Жыл бұрын

Exactly 💯

@ASS999ish Жыл бұрын

It's a sad World folks

@monal83022 Жыл бұрын

Reunification with the abusive parents isn’t the answer. Good non bio parents are better than bad bio parents. Blood means nothing when abuse is involved

@tanyaslater9604 Жыл бұрын

What you don't understand is that the Court is corrupt. If they don't take the kids they get no money. They are 7 to 8 more likely to get abused in Foster Care. It's all about the money Research it!

@user-lm2ix1xd4c Жыл бұрын

yes, but you are not hearing what is being said. in 2019, nearly 8 million children were subjects of suspected maltreatment reports. OVER 50% of these reports did not end up warranting an investigation. and yet that same year almost 3.5 million children WERE subjected to investigations with MORE than 80% of those being found unsubstantiated. these investigations involve interrogation and complete strip searches of VERY young children and a LARGE majority of them are found to be completely unnecessary. we NEED to fix this. this is traumatic for these young kids.

@monal83022 Жыл бұрын

@@user-lm2ix1xd4c I'm open to what you are saying, I just need you to cite your sources so I can verify. However, I don't see questions and "strip searches" which I believe you are referring to a medical analysis done by a doctor as traumatizing as actual abuse. If there is a question of possible abuse then it should be investigated. There is too much risk. I've heard of children suffering their whole life from childhood abuse but never from being asked questions or being examined by a doctor.

@tuber6382 Жыл бұрын

Speaking like a true government worker. Hahahaha

@69rokrbibaby Жыл бұрын

@@monal83022 If your 'open" to what is being said. Then YOU just NEED to be more than willing to 'open' your browsers search engine to 'verify' the findings! As for 'questions' and 'strip searches' conducted to a child with or without parental consent. That alone in itself is traumatizing and even to adults Ms. Lisa! The definition to 'traumatizing', is where one is subjected to shock as a result of an emotionally disturbing experience or physical injury'. Caused by, and is actually.....ABUSE! To which neither the 'questioning' or 'strip search' is done by a medical professional as you stated clearly THINKING you KNOW. Whether it is through an investigation by our departments or law enforcements. Due to our 4th Constitutional Amendment where we are protected from unreasonable searches and seizures. The ONLY laws stipulating a 'strip search' to be allowed or is when one is detained for incarceration and a POLICE OFFICER believes the person has a weapon or contraband on them. And ONLY by the same sex may it be conducted before and after arrival to correctional facilities. The only authorized and LEGAL official allowed to do 'strip searches' of a child is Law Enforcement of same sex to the child with their supervisor or another legal official of same sex as well but in a private, not common area. Now, IF a medical professional is involved to view a child without clothing attire, it is related to sexual assault to where they need to perform a "Rape Kit Exam" on the victim claiming sexual abuse. I do agree however, with you in regards to investigating possible abuse. On ALL parties, including the investigator doing the investigation, the Department of Children and Families they work for, the foster parents, the mental behavioral facilities, and organizations, and affiliated 'local based' so called non-profit organizations with hundreds of THOUSANDS of possible abuse. Not to mention accomplice of children's murders. Before you doubt or request proof.... Again go to the DCF website! The hundreds of DEATHS that occur due to abuse in the system every year for the past 3 years is SICKENING. The parents whom the state rips the kids from, are based on false allegations or falsified evidence, parents and children being coerced, unlawfully taken into state custody and then actually abused MORE than they were at home, all without DUE PROCESS which is our CIVIL RIGHT! The States system to help children and families, are NOT helping when they are breaking our Constitutional Rights, Civil Rights, Children's Rights, and Human Right's and Federal Laws by making their own from the first knock on your door! Targeting the poverty class and single parents. Because we're easier and can not afford to legally fight back or made to believe WE CAN! Have you been diagnosed with any mental disorders, ever take meds for them and have kids? How about smoking, or do you even have the occasional drink of wine/beer? If so, you'll be next! And that is all they need, the rest are ALLEGATIONS, and unproven. This disease we think is in place to actually help our children DON'T! In the system or not! REFORM is due! I pray you are not one to sit down and let our children take it. If you're so open then STAND UP!

@helenalcover-pt7mq 10 ай бұрын

This happened to me and this is wrong! This doesn’t help families and it makes you feel like a failure. I hate dcfs. I know just how she feels!

@seventhcompactor1505 10 ай бұрын

Aren't you a failure? you chose to pop out a kid, before you had a stable financial life

@bobbydennis8333 Жыл бұрын

“Actually- it is in my interest for you to stay in poverty.” - US economic policy pre-Obama :)

@breezybre2670 Жыл бұрын

Don't give money to people with drug addictions. No money will go to the child. If you want to keep the family together get treatment for the addiction under court order.

@khristionlouvatin6874 2 ай бұрын

Some people are just lazy and don’t want to work and just live off welfare

@chrislambert9435 Жыл бұрын

They Tax food, they Tax everything that the families need

@virgilhilts3924 Жыл бұрын

How about not creating a family you cannot afford

@jaybird2791 Жыл бұрын

This is awful!! Yet all the kids that really need help don't get it!! Btw- if you can't take a drug screen- you should have Dr notes. If you can't get them- it was already explained to you that you will lose your kids. Those drug screens are VERY SENSITIVE. You can't fake your way through it.

@madad0406 Жыл бұрын

You should blur out the VIN on the Ally Financial doc on their fridge.

@WLewis1987 Күн бұрын

Poverty does not automatically equal neglect

@laylonveatch3339 6 ай бұрын

Being tested for pot by people who do cocaine and it's ok for them because they have the power 😢

@barryshackelford6549 11 ай бұрын

Listen to what criminals say.

@jody-simonemarshall4292 3 ай бұрын

I can comprehend if the parents are on drugs that yes it is justified because the child safety is in danger. However, the system through money to investigate and seperate families. However, invest in finding better solutions i.e., counseling for parents who are depressed, rehab classes and education, poverty better job opportunities. So, parents can be whole and provide their children better. 🙄 😮

@loydamedina235 Жыл бұрын

Remove kids from parents Is a business!!!!!

@charde9739 12 күн бұрын

I mean, if that were true, I don’t know why people still have them. And of course, any job being done makes money. it’s just crazy that cps, child protective services, is a service provided to protect children from their parents.

@charde9739 12 күн бұрын

The one mom, her house wasn’t in a condition to raise children and she was putting off for child health appointments. Children cannot speak for themselves in their often ignored simply for being born After their parents . we’re tired of seeing feed the children videos we’re tired of seeing babies abandon in a trashcan we’re tired of seeing Children being bullied because they have to wear dirty clothes to school because their parents don’t give a damn

@loydamedina235 12 күн бұрын

@@charde9739 a lot of gov . institution don't care very well the kids, and the gov. do nothing about it. They kids stay in those institutions for years only because of the money the get.

@loydamedina235 12 күн бұрын

@@charde9739 but no one protect children from abusive institutions

@charde9739 12 күн бұрын

@@loydamedina235 then discarded when they turn 18 and become homeless a lot of the time, especially for males. But people don’t think about these things often and they don’t realize that financially stable people rarely get their children taken. They also fail to realize that you can’t wait until you have children to become financially stable because it’s almost impossible.

@lostagain2226 9 ай бұрын

Oh, the stories I could share. I was in foster care and worked in a paraprofessional capacity for an LSW contractor agency for WVA DCFS and dealt with my parental rights being terminated. I could share some true insanity from all ends of the spectrum in this industry, which it truly is an industry that makes children a financial commodity. There are financial incentives to keep children from their biological parents/family and instead motivates them to terminate parental rights and adopt out to perspective adoptive families or people.

@brianlinke1856 Жыл бұрын

The US has become 70% dependent on consumer spending alone to drive its economy. No longer employed in full-time jobs , w/ benefits, workers get caught between declining purchasing power and soring health care costs. Many workers additionally suffer under a global 'wage race to the bottom' as corporations seek the low cost supplier (wherever they may be off shore). You would have to return to the England of Charles Dickens to find greater income spreads than exist in the US currently.

@caritodeg Жыл бұрын

There has to be a better way 😥

@up-uw4op Жыл бұрын

I hate that the single mom will be charged but not the dad. They investigate the mom but not the dad. If the father is abusive and the mother calls cps nothing is done. He gets joint custody even if he does and sells drugs like meth, heroin. If you have your baby in a hospital or file a birth certificate they are owned by the government. Family courts are sick. Best thing you can do is pack up what you can and go camping in the woods until your kids are older.

@kg4021 Жыл бұрын

Lol too funny..

@lillyvgutierrez9685 4 ай бұрын

But they keep letting him come back call cops and he’s laying in bed w her still Id the father so bad I can’t use I see lots people use cps for games …

@lillyvgutierrez9685 4 ай бұрын

They can tell there’s people in poverty letting their kid run around naked no food barefoot 10 adults in a 1 bedroom smoking dope .

@seventhcompactor1505 10 ай бұрын

When 'mom' and 'dad' can't afford groceries, it's not a family

@khristionlouvatin6874 2 ай бұрын

Thank god for welfare because they wouldn’t eat otherwise

@cathystevens9826 Жыл бұрын

Very true.

@kg4021 Жыл бұрын

I have worked in foster care homes and have been certified by CPS for my training. The foster care private homes that I had worked in were excellent. The cps workers were great, the foster care mom loved the children, and me and the other staff worker gave our all to these children. Many of the children the parents were on drugs, alcohol, no food in house, no clothes, etc... Their stay in the homes were far better than their stay with their own parents. I was a single mother of one child working 3-4 low income jobs just to survive without government assistance because I was told that they would not give my race any help. Once I had some parent call cps on me because my daughter would spend the night at a friend's house while I was working overnight. My home was clean, food stocked, I don't do drugs nor smoke /alcohol, the case worker questioned me, looked around my house, talked to my employers, talked to school officials, and talked to my daughter... She closed the case because I was a great parent. They are hard on people because they are doing their job.

@LB-uo7xy Жыл бұрын

You feel that it was justified of her to make you jump through all those hoops that white middle class two parent households that might be SEVERLY abusing their kids are never made to jump through because they have a lawyer on stand-by while working class people can't readily afford one to get their social worker to magically disappear?

@jarrodyuki7081 Жыл бұрын

welll....................................

@algebraworks Ай бұрын

In which community is the worker best likely to score.

@sallyclay1974 Жыл бұрын

If u cant support a child, u shouldnt have one. Tne reason y people r on welfare, is msinly because of lack of education. There is too much government dependency. . The problem with our system, is that the poor get a check ftom the government, every month, and don't learn how to provide for themselves.

@caradelatorre7710 Жыл бұрын

If only middle class women had kids we would have even less babies a year then we do now. Did you know that middle class is a person that makes 52k to 150k, which only 18 percent of the nation.There is also the issue of not every women is capable of physical having children. Today we have to many people who get to nosey in others business. Medical marijwana in many that is just fine. If the father has only been caught once with drugs just get him help do not right him off a deadbeat person. say her family makes about 40,000 That is barely enough for one person to live on in my area.

@charde9739 12 күн бұрын

How hard is it to comprehend especially after watching this that maybe you should establish yourself before not even having your first child, but may be before your second third fourth fifth child. if you’re having to go to food banks and beg for handouts, then why would you continue to get pregnant? It just screams, entitlement, selfishness, and possible mental illness. Who cares if you’re traumatized, you create the situation. Kind of parents who don’t want to do anything above the very bare minimum they will scream I close you I feed you you should be happy just so that they don’t have to get out of their comfort zone. Like the couple in the beginning, there’s a reason why they both got that same big, build slow moving body …because they have no motivation. No drive

@PersianPrincess Жыл бұрын

Stop focusing an drilling into today's young black females an men this negative shidd. Start focusing on they can stop having all these kids an break generational curses

@janiterinadrum1627 2 ай бұрын

If you had a DVD of one of these peoples lives that claim that they just can’t afford it.. a DVD of their entire life… and if you watch that DVD in reverse, don’t you think that you’d be able to hit pause in just a few minutes and say right there you could’ve done that different but you didn’t you chose to get your nails done at the flea market you bought beer and cigarettes you got $200 pair of tennis shoes when you can’t make your rent payment… you got drunk on Sunday night and called in sick for the fifth time in a row and got fired and then blamed it on the boss?… You kept being late for work you didn’t do your job as good as the guy right beside of you. You stayed on the phone you played with your phone. You didn’t do your job then you got fired and claimed racism.!! I don’t believe for a second that 90% of the people in poverty have done everything they could possibly do to get themselves out of poverty, and they just couldn’t do it … I know it to be true,, and now you know it… and I’m not guessing.. I have been there and worked my way out of it with no help so it is possible don’t lie to yourself and other people

@lillyvgutierrez9685 4 ай бұрын

Chooses better men

@somozamaria Жыл бұрын

there's a reason why these kids are taken from thier parents. We should protect our children.

@Bigtease83 Жыл бұрын

How is it protecting the child if they get traumatized by this when it’s just a poverty issue. They aren’t bad parents just in a bad situation.

@calrey Жыл бұрын

Apple - That's naive to assume that. The reasons are far more complex. Using separation tactics to further isolate and traumatize children and parents only increases the growth of long term mental illnesses in communities. Money should be shifted into creating holistic, trauma informed parenting education that involves the entire family unit so that families can stay intact and develop healthy relationship dynamics, healthy coping skills, and financial knowledge.

@ernestoesquerra2302 Жыл бұрын

Wife and husbands of American citizens. American united act 2920

@lillyvgutierrez9685 4 ай бұрын

Usually u are I’d ur w a felon doing drugs why would u keep a man like that around U. around ur kids But ur straight as a arrow ????? the foster family knowa how to love him. y’all look at y’all ur not fighting talking crazy he doesn’t even feel safe wow 2022 this recent ……

@sallyclay1974 Жыл бұрын

Typo mainly

@marriagebeforesex Жыл бұрын

I have a lot of work colleagues at Lowe’s Lehi who are working students! Their parents probably cannot afford to send them to college this is why they have to work while studying!

@seventhcompactor1505 10 ай бұрын

Here's the secret - they aren't really students. They show up to class, and learn almost nothing. They're future blue collar hourly workers.

@beaulieuc8910 6 ай бұрын

perhaps they shoulld have thought about this before having kids.... kids are not free they are very very expensive and ruin lives

@rubytuesday1316 24 күн бұрын

@@beaulieuc8910 Absolutely ! This comment is from Lehi UTAH ! lmfao That is a city in Utah where polygamy and mormons are still breeding from stoneAges and kids are used as social and religious PAWNS! stuck in LD$

@hotspur666 Жыл бұрын

Apartments owners raised their cost by 50% to over $1200.00 a month...They tossed out half and filled the country of homeless people who got expelled from their homes. APOCALYPTIC END OF THE WORLD....THIS THE SAME EVERYWHERE!

@jarrodyuki7081 Жыл бұрын

shoudl we get the army ot rench fyr them or buidl mor homless shelters gentrify all the cities.

@RandallHallKaizenReiki Жыл бұрын

It's hilarious that people create these problems for themselves and try to blame the government for not fixing it for them.

@beaulieuc8910 6 ай бұрын

well said. they choose rotten violent partners and choose to have kids by them

@gethsemanepolk6155 2 ай бұрын

Think it's that simple eh?

@helenalcover-pt7mq 10 ай бұрын

This is so wrong. We need to stop this now. Then people want to talk about trafficking. I worried about my kids everyday and they expect you to get better and act like this is ok.

@seventhcompactor1505 10 ай бұрын

What's wrong is people popping out kids they can't afford

@mikeodee1164 10 ай бұрын

teh way the working poor were treated in teh past was bad enough now what the government did raising all the prices and making many working poor homeless much more then before and causing many working poor to commit crimes by forcing them into severe poverty i thank god i live off the government i thank god i am not the working poor they way they get treated and severely under paid

@seventhcompactor1505 10 ай бұрын

No one made them poor or homeless, besides themselves

@mikeodee1164 10 ай бұрын

@@seventhcompactor1505 your bs dont fool me i know better

@mikeodee1164 10 ай бұрын

@@seventhcompactor1505 several severely sick in the head so called normal white middle class americans tried to make me homeless by not renting me an apt years ago when i was on section 8 thanks to the arabs they failed im a poor white disabled american i know very well what kind of people are in usa u have to be severely sick in the head to make another person homeless or even try to thanks to the truly normal arabs i live in a new apt in a new apt building im treated one thousand times better

@mikeodee1164 10 ай бұрын

@@seventhcompactor1505 go troll some one else

@seventhcompactor1505 10 ай бұрын

@@mikeodee1164 you don’t know better. That’s why you’re poor. And, it’s clear that you really screwed up in K-12

@destinyhart7532 Жыл бұрын

Don't get high on any drugs, maybe.

@destinyhart7532 11 ай бұрын

I received an email about this comment, possibly going against community guidelines. So allow me to rephrase my initial comment.... people who claim they did nothing wrong or they took my children for no reason but casually admit to getting high on marijuana or any drug, for that matter, are in need of a lot more help than with poverty.

@lillyvgutierrez9685 4 ай бұрын

The ones who keep having problems u know why . Don’t make issues don’t date dusty men and u don’t have these problems 💯 it’s comes down to partner if he got kids w u and u struggling out there that’s on him too

@kg4021 Жыл бұрын

Don't be on this list: 1 Corinthians 6 :9-10 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Revelation 21 :8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Only way to salvation is Jesus Christ Acts 2 :38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.