Forgotten Children of Texas

Statistics on Residential Foster Care Facilities and Foster Care Abuse.

Source: Forgotten Chidren's Report of 2004, Texas State Comptroller's office.

Updated Release- June 2006 -
http://www.hope4kidz.org/pdf/60623_forgotten_children.pdf

In 2004 - 2005, Governor Perry requested the Office of Inspector General (OIG), to complete "an investigation into the systemic problems within CPS."

The Comptroller's investigatory power was limited and recommended changes were ignored.

Entire 2004 Forgotten Children's Report available for free download at:
http://www.hope4kidz.org/news/forgottenChildren.html

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[biginvt61]

tx love's to put people to death...why should this surprise anyone.

[hope4kidz]

@biginvt61 I believe it should shock people that millions of dollars are given to the directors of these facilities and this is what they do with the money intended to care for children! The fact that these places remain open for years, without an investigation or reprimand should shock everyone.

The primary difference is that these children did not do anything wrong to be placed into foster care. No one hears these children & by the time they are grown, the damage is too severe.

[cksilverado1]

We created this problem! People are having children that do not have the physical, mentalor financial ability to support them.

'No fault' divorce, the 'free love' and sex generation (hippies) and Progressive movement have created a whole generation of unwanted children.

[hope4kidz]

@cksilverado1 There is an issue in religious' demands that families not use birth control, teaching that breastfeeding is the only godly sanctioned form of birth control. When people lose all common sense, allowing the church to dictate how many children families who are poor as a church mouse have, the church should support the huge families; imo, oc.

[paisleyyama]

My sister in TX knew a person that was having financial problems so she decided the way to fix her problem would be to become a foster parent! The woman has relatives w/all sorts of criminal histories. My sister convinced her not to become a foster parent. She did it by telling the woman all the neg. things it would bring to HER life. To have told her not to do it b/c it was wrong to the child wouldn`t have convinced her. This is the sort of ppl foster parent programs attract, ppl who need $.

[vannilsa5050]

i'm glad the word is eting out there being raised and abused in foster care myself i know it feels to be forgotton and left out to the world it;s a cruel place man, i couldn't rap my mind around being abused my whole life from my family jst to be taken away to abused by the system. it's a double blow man and i had to fight my ass off to survive but here i am baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LukeBorusiewicz]

Posted on the Luke's Army website

[smellcaster]

@hope4kidz whatever they mean with a "wholesome life" even a mongolian Tent gives more Protection against the Elements. Lots of Wood and no proper Cabin ? and no one noticed that ? blinded by the Bribe ? whenever there's Money involved it seems that really strange things happen, the more Money the stranger the Actions People take.

Every Day i learn more how People think and act and the more i learn the more i become an Asshole.

[hope4kidz]

@smellcaster - pics of kids living outside, protected from the elements by plastic, lots of wood to chop, and a pee wall?

Camp owner cried and told of a wholesome life she gave children, how messed up the kids were.. She thinks SHE is a Victim of the Comptroller's Report!

Kids, not the owner, lived in the elements 365 days and nights a year. Worse than a homeless person, kids held against their will, with nowhere to go.

CPS agents take too long to protect kids in state “care."

[smellcaster]

@letsgetjustice4wray treating a Kid like an Animal ? well, the Dogs and Cats in my Neigborhood have a good life compared to some Kids. Sometimes i wish People would treat Kids as good as Animals.

[texasstorm166]

Check out govabuse.org Join the protest. Join the fight

[Tonakai15]

@CPSSucks

But that's not true, the problem is we need more good foster parents, not every foster parent is bad.

[NancyHey]

@cksilverado1 Not all of them are "unwanted" children. Some are children who have been torn from loving homes because CPS has made false accusations against their parents. This is especailly easy to do if the parents are poor, and lack the resouces for competent legal representation.

[p717]

@cksilverado1

Hippies were 50 years ago. The issue involves people of child bearing age and a plethora of social conditions that have always existed, more or less, within industrialized societies.