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...least 26 states have had to cede legal guardianship--that is, give up the authority to make decisions concerning their child's residence and care--in order to qualify for services. This often involves removal from the home, either to a facility or to the custody of a trained foster family where the child receives intensive care somewhere in the community. Child advocates estimate that 1 in 5 families with mentally ill children in the U.S. has surrendered custody in exchange for treatment of a child with bipolar or some other disorder, including ADHD, schizophrenia or depression...
Indeed, to the injury of cutting the tie between parent and child, many state foster-care systems add the insult of making no distinction between children who have been given up in order to qualify for mental-health care and those who have been removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect. Some systems may even require parents of emotionally ill kids to declare that they are neglecting or abandoning their child--an admission that may get them listed in a state registry, available for background checks to potential employers...
...Foster's Group of Australia bought Napa-based Beringer Blass Wine Estates in 2000 for $1.5 billion, and for the first time last year, the quintessential global beer company sold more wine ($1.04 billion) than beer ($931.9 million). Allied Domecq of Britain, which already owned Clos du Bois in Napa as well as wineries in Argentina and New Zealand, last September paid $275 million for Spain's largest wine producer, Bodegas y Bebidas...
Instead of making child placement decisions based on pernicious stereotypes, social workers should be making decisions on a case-by-case basis with all applicants. There should not be any separate litmus test for gays and lesbians. After all, not all heterosexual couples qualify to be foster or adoptive parents. In fact, not all heterosexuals qualify to be biological parents, as they are the reason why we currently have so many children in the foster care system...
Kavanaugh said Absoult Thursday helped foster house spirit...