Aging Out of Foster Care in Michigan: No Support and No Safety Net (Part 2) Welcome back, and thanks for joining us again as we continue our discussion on the challenges faced by kids who age out of Michigan’s foster care system. As we explained in the first part of this series, when foster youth…
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What Happens to Foster Kids When They Age Out? A System That Leaves Too Many Behind There’s long been a public sentiment that children in foster care often get a raw deal. They lose their families, are shuffled from one unfamiliar home to another, and often lack basic stability or security. While foster care is…
Foster Care and Mental Health, Part 2: Reactive Attachment and Borderline Personality Disorders Welcome back. In Part 1 of this series, we explored the devastating emotional impact that foster care can have on children—particularly the widespread prevalence of depression and anxiety disorders following removal from their homes. Now we turn to two additional, and often…
The Hidden Toll of Foster Care: How Children Suffer After Being Removed From Their Families Numerous studies have shown that children removed from their homes and placed in foster care often suffer significant emotional trauma—even when their family environment wasn’t ideal. Whether due to abuse allegations, neglect, or misunderstandings, the process of forced separation is…
New Michigan Law Demands Greater Transparency From the Office of Children’s Ombudsman In a move to improve oversight of Michigan’s child welfare system, recently enacted legislation now requires the Office of Children’s Ombudsman (OCO) to release redacted reports following investigations into allegations of child abuse or neglect. These reforms aim to bring long-overdue transparency and…
We’re not fans of CPS. We’ve spent years battling the agency in court, helping families torn apart by their anti-family policies, and protecting parents falsely accused by CPS workers of abuse and neglect. But much as we can say we don’t like or appreciate them, this one father from Florida took his anger at the…
Think about what makes Christmas special for you. Is it trimming the tree with your kids? Opening gifts from loved ones, and having the pleasure of giving them things you selected with care for them? What about spending the day, relaxing with family and friends? There are many things that make Christmas magical, but for…
The issue of gun rights is a highly contested one right now. In the wake of the tragic Florida high school shooting, there has been a great deal of debate and controversy surrounding the issue of weapons ownership in the US. Here in Michigan, legislators have been under a lot of pressure to address the…
Welcome back and thanks for joining us as we wrap up this subject. If you’ve been with us from the very beginning, you’ll know that we’ve already covered a lot of ground, from the early orphanages and orphan trains, all the way to the early juvenile court and the social security act. Moving on, we’d…
Welcome back and thanks for joining us as we continue the interesting (and admittedly very sad) subject of foster care in the U.S. and Michigan. So far we’ve looked at the challenges faced by early orphanages, the orphan trains out of New York city, and the very start of foster care in Michigan. In this…