Articles tagged: foster care
For the First Time, ‘Redeemed’ Texas Parents May Get a Second Chance
New legislation could open a legal pathway to reinstate once-terminated parental rights.
Maggie Luna tried to fit all of the love she had for her three children onto a tri-fold poster board a week before her court date. Each section of the plain whi...Read More
The Forgotten Children of Texas
Each year, thousands of foster children in Texas are shuffled into little-known “treatment centers” where they are frequently neglected and abused. State officials have largely ignored allegations of wrongdoing and calls for reform.
The Forgotten Children of Texas Each year, thousands of foster children in Texas are shuffled into little-known “treatment centers” where they are frequentl...Read More
Will Texas Keep Fighting Foster Care Reform?
More than three years ago, a federal judge handed down court orders to reform Texas’ foster care system. And for more than three years, state lawyers have fought against those orders.
It’s been more than three years since a federal judge ruled that Texas dumps some of the state’s most vulnerable children into a foster care system “where...Read More
Expecting Care
How Texas is failing foster care kids and contributing to an alarming teen pregnancy rate.
by Rebecca Grant January 22, 2019 When Arianna walked into a church basement in Austin to take a free pregnancy test, she thought of it as a lark, a way to ...Read More
Law Will Allow Texas to Refuse Same-Sex Couples, Non-Christians as Foster Parents
The proposal would also protect contractors who send children to parochial schools and deny abortion access to young women in their care.
The proposal would also protect contractors who send children to parochial schools and deny abortion access to young women in their care....Read More
Despite Warnings, the Texas Legislature Plans to Privatize Much of the Child Welfare System
Pressure from the governor to get CPS reforms passed quickly has hushed most criticism of the $279 million privatization plan.
Pressure from the governor to get CPS reforms passed quickly has hushed most criticism of the $279 million privatization plan....Read More
Lawmakers Wrangle Over Fix for ‘Broken’ Foster Care System
Republicans said they're not sure if more money is a fix for Texas' child welfare system, where children have died, been abused and re-abused in state care....Read More
The Texas Miracle #3: The Gospel of Soup
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On the podcast: our roundtable wonders at the wild world of Sid Miller, plus we take Texas to task for leaders' mishandling of the foster care system....Read More
Lawmakers Try to Bring Order to Disastrously Lax Foster Care Training System
Responding to the deaths of 13 children under the protection of licensed caregivers, the legislature is considering more oversight of foster care agencies....Read More