Advocacy HELP NEEDED

[kelpa123]

SCI Nurse - I also had a strange feeling about this situation. I'd love to know "the rest of the story".

[grommet]

I get a hinky feeling about this thread. The OP has not come back to our site, even to read the responses, since the day they posted (3/30/11). They first posted about the child here in 2008, then nothing until this most recent post.

Compared to similar situations I have dealt with through CPS in my area, the inaction reported also seems odd, and the failure of the grandmother to get the press or elected legislators involved when the system is not working is not really well explained. Anyone else get these "tingles" about this thread?

(KLD)

I had a hinky feeling about it from the start. Could be true but I something seems off.

[Patrick Madsen]

I sure did K.

[dispatchjen]

I did also I have trouble believing that any state would refuse to let a child go to strangers instead of their grandmother. Unless she isn't fit either. If a child is in foster care then the state has to pay the parents correct? Wouldn't it be cheaper to let a family member to raise her.

[flicka]

If a child is in foster care then the state has to pay the parents correct?

No. The state charges the parents money if they have a job (at least in CA). The state pays the foster parents for taking care of the kids.

[dispatchjen]

But who pays if the parents r dead

[flicka]

Taxpayers.

[dispatchjen]

Ok so wht leave the xhild in foster care y not give her to family and not pay fosrer parents give that spot to a child that need a home. Something is fishy with this one

[cheesecake]

I did also I have trouble believing that any state would refuse to let a child go to strangers instead of their grandmother. Unless she isn't fit either. If a child is in foster care then the state has to pay the parents correct? Wouldn't it be cheaper to let a family member to raise her.

With Family Fostercare, there are still payments. In the state of MD, it is a complicated formula.

I think it best to stop guessing and making assumptions that the grandma is unfit. There could be a host of reasons why she was not granted custody, none of them having anything to do with her fitness to raise a child.