Quick discussion of foster care. Not optimal for Nadya’s children. They don’t discuss adoption.
From the website:
Shalena Smith from Ga Ga Designs says she chose to help Nadya and her children because she knows foster care is not a great situation for children. Her husband, Calvin, grew up in foster care.
DR PHIL (to Calvin): It’s not an easy go in foster care oftentimes, true?
CALVIN: That is very true. It was basically very challenging to grow up always in search of your identity, wondering why you’re in that situation. I was often reminded that I was in that situation because my mother abandoned me, and also a fear factor of never to tell about the abuse that would take place, because there were always worse situations, other homes.
DR PHIL: The truth is, you got some treatment that no child should have to endure.
Linda Wallace Pate
Child Advocate and civil rights attorney Linda Wallace Pate joins the show.
DR PHIL: [Foster care] is not where these children need to be. We need to try to fix this situation in place, true?
PATE: It’s imperative that we do that. I don’t think people really understand how poorly the government provides parenting for children.
I don’t think people understand that the rate of abuse and neglect in foster care is four times higher than in the general public.
Research indicates that within four hours of children being taken from their parents, they suffer six times more post-traumatic stress than children in Iraq, or veterans or soldiers.
Most of the children who age out of the foster care system are homeless within three months.
Seventy percent of the people in prison came out of the foster care system.
Linda explains that in Los Angeles County the foster care system receives large amounts of funding.
PATE: I don’t want people to think that children aren’t receiving proper care because they don’t have money to do that. It’s estimated that half of those children should never have been taken from their parents in the first place. It’s a very, very scary situation. It’s very imperative that everything gets in place for this woman, and her beautiful children, and this beautiful mother, because the fate for these children, if this does not work out for them, is dismal.
It’s a loss of innocence. It’s the end of life as they know it. It’s almost like a death sentence.
Again, there is no mention of the death sentence handed to the 6 y/o girl. She is the one who is going to be most impacted.
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