Category: Foster Child Abuse
Level: State
Who: Individuals and foster children
How: The need for increased regulation of people wanting to foster children
Who: Individuals and foster children
How: The need for increased regulation of people wanting to foster children
My Views:
Recently in the past year, there has
been an ever-increasing spike of foster child deaths from neglect or abuse in
Texas. According to a report from the Department of Family and Protective
Services, there have been “more deaths from mistreatment of foster children in
the past year, than the last four years combined”, which is extremely
unsettling. Last week an 11 month old infant diet from a cranial fracture, and
her foster father was taken into custody because he had been investigated three
times previously for abuse. The Department of Family and Protective services
have said that their lack of budget and resources are causing an overabundance
of cases per caseworker, which limits the degree of quality on each case. If
the caseworkers have too many clients, certain things may be overlooked at home
visits, including signs and symptoms of abuse. Maybe if these problems could
have been addressed earlier, the 11-month-old girl would not have had to die,
or the other eight children that died since January of this year. The
regulations that are proposed include limiting the number of children per
household and increasing the medical evaluations and unannounced visits of
caseworkers. Hopefully these important programs can receive the funding they
need so that the safety of the foster children can be ensured. It is only fair
to provide these kids a safe environment especially because they are already in
a not so good situation by being in foster care.
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