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Actually dpen and Ivy, you are both right. Children abused in their biohomes go into the foster care system. Sadly, the system is not perfect and there are children taken from mothers that their only mistake was being young and poor. But there are many children taken out of abusive and neglectful homes, which is a good thing. Then they all get put into foster care, and too often that makes the problems worse. There are many abusive and neglectful foster homes out there too. And even if the kids are lucky and get a good foster home they recieve damage from being bounced back and forth from their bio home to foster home and from foster home to foster home. I've seen too many kids bounced around for years. Kids that had relatively few issues when they first came into care have huge issues after years of going round and round with the system. There has been some recent improvements (in Michigan anyway) of the system, but there is much more that needs done. We are very fortunate in that we adopted our two daughters from the foster care system and one has no emotional issues from her experience (she was too young), and the other has very few issues. The basic things are 1) stop removing children needlessly. Poor does not equal neglectful or a bad life. and 2) If you have proof the bio parents were abusive then terminate rights much much sooner to save the kids the grief of bouncing around. Sorry to jump on your thread, but this is a subject very near and dear to me.
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