Incentives & Cultural Bias in Foster Care

[teaberryblue]

A look at how Native children are being taken from their homes under questionable circumstances and being placed in foster care with white "guardians" in a scheme that makes money for state governments.

Incentives and Cultural Bias Fuel Foster Care on NPR.

Comments

[youngcaesar]

in Incite! Women of Color Against Violence, there's also an article about black children in foster care that explores similar issues. It's a must read for understanding why children of color are so likely to be removed. It makes a major point about how "neglect" often means "poverty" and the circumstances that arrive from it, like latchkey kids who are really young, or families being hungry, things like that that could be solved by addressing economic injustice, but aren't fixed by separation and the demonization of parents who are trying their best but are simply poor.

[rime_r]

So fucked up. Thanks very much for posting this.

[spreadsothin]

so fucked. spread the signal.

[romp]

Thanks for posting. Canada also has a rule about Aboriginal kids going to Aboriginal foster or adoptive parents from what I know but somehow it doesn't play out that way.

video: A family celebrates return of girl from foster care