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Foster care parent abuse could be better monitored and accounted for

By Hicbd
Sat Mar 13 2021 9:43 am

"Amy (name altered), an adult client who spent over seven years in the foster care system, told me that roughly 9 out of 10 fellow foster children she crossed paths with claimed that they had been abused by their foster parents...There seemed to be incentives in place to keep children with foster families they were assigned to, which sometimes led to lenience when evaluating conditions."

URL:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/somatic-psychology/201201/the-foster-care-system-and-its-victims-part-2
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/10/15/no-one-checks-on-kids-who-previously-lived-with-abusive-foster-parents/5896724002/
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/18/foster-care-children-deaths-mentor-network/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/fostering-profits

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Foster Care Child Welfare / Protection U.S. Government Contracting / Procurement U.S. Human Rights Sexual Assault / Abuse U.S. State Government U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

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