tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19705400.post3891850076721262741..comments2023-08-07T08:19:03.097-05:00Comments on ADOPTION AND ITS FOOTSTOOL: THE FINANCES BEHIND THE FEDERAL AND STATE FOSTER CARE PAYMENTSAmyadopteehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10954658047614318238noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19705400.post-3506946951408819952008-08-25T10:19:00.000-05:002008-08-25T10:19:00.000-05:00In Texas, foster care is privatized. Adoption age...In Texas, foster care is privatized. Adoption agencies send the payments to the foster parents. My point of this blog was that these adoption agencies make money this way. The monies for foster care must go through these private organizations before it goes to the families that need them. I concentrated on just the foster care payments, adoption subsidy payments, and adoption payments of other kinds. <BR/><BR/>The right to life groups, adoption agencies, and churches all complain about the money Planned Parenthood gets which is 332 million dollars. When its obvious that these organizations get so much more. I most definitely agree with you about sex education. I have already started with my girls. I agree that foster care is different but with adoption agencies here in Texas being in the business of foster care.Amyadopteehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10954658047614318238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19705400.post-81569303109663001952008-08-25T09:50:00.000-05:002008-08-25T09:50:00.000-05:00Amy you are mixing apples and oranges together. Mo...Amy you are mixing apples and oranges together. Most infants coming out of adoption agencies go into private foster care. So that money is very different from public foster care.<BR/><BR/>And all the funds you mention were created to address a specific concern.<BR/><BR/>Personally... I wish the abstinence training would be changed to something more realistic. Sex education (which includes conversations about abstinence) has a bigger impact. <BR/><BR/>Some of the money you quoted goes towards keeping families together. 2/3 of foster children go back to their families (or extended family). <BR/><BR/>The "Abandoned Infants Assistant" money is interesting. This money pot was created in 1988 as a reaction against the "crack baby" issue. There was a huge increase in the number of newly born children who were just left at the hospital. You can read more about it here. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/laws_policies/policy/im/1990/im9017a1.htm<BR/><BR/>If I am remembering correctly the money is used in different ways... including funding counseling and drug treatment for the parents. And the money is used for services for the medical fragile infants. In the past (don't know if it is now) this included infant massage. Massage isn't seen as a medical treatment, but it has a proven track record is improving infant's health. Human beings need touch.AngelaWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06650267665190139317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19705400.post-36217243503304888812008-08-25T08:53:00.000-05:002008-08-25T08:53:00.000-05:00This is what I know of my situation. I know that ...This is what I know of my situation. I know that it took a year for an adoption to finalize. The agency probably collected foster care payments for me and others while we were in foster care (even though we had already been placed with our adoptive parents). I feel icky when it comes to the money side of things. My adoptive mother was furious when she found out that my natural mother paid for her expenses when she thought that is what she thought she paid. My natural mother and her family paid for her time there. My adoptive parents paid to get custody of me. My mom and I calculated the time that they got me and when I was born, and when my natural mom left the home. I spent six weeks actually in foster care (either the maternity home or an actual foster home). The agency told me my natural mother didn't want to hold me. I have found out through other mothers at the home that was a lie. They were not encouraged to hold us. They tried to get away with not telling them the sex of their child as well. I don't like being lied to about this. Just another reason why I don't like Catholic Charities and their affliated adoption agencies.Amyadopteehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10954658047614318238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19705400.post-87887185430981838082008-08-24T22:46:00.000-05:002008-08-24T22:46:00.000-05:00Accountability is available in agency adoptions in...Accountability is available in agency adoptions involving a pass-through expense system, because those agencies are required to provide adoptive parents a written estimate of maternity expenses (including medical bills not covered by Medicaid or insurance.)<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>This is not true of the flat fee agency programs; adoptive parents who dare to question why their flat fee includes coverage for medical bills when they know the mother has/had Medicaid are blithely told the overage helps subsidize the agency's costs in other, uninsured cases. (Yeah... right.)<BR/><BR/>The sad fact, though, is that adoptive parents would likely be amongst the first to cry foul if asked to reimburse the medical bills paid by Medicaid in the birth of the child they adopt. (And on occasion, even birthparents ask to be compensated for the amount of money saved by the usage of their Medicaid to cover medical bills.) <BR/><BR/>Yet what does all this say to (and about) the adoptee, the innocent subject of these government-subsidized transactions?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com