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It seems the issue of accessing medical care for adoptive children is bubbling to the surface of the secret caldron called child welfare.


What is even more entertaining for me is now, people who believed the child abuse propaganda and adopted a child because the original parents were such hellish monsters are finding out that, they, too, are being called the same hellish monsters.


What does one do when a child needs mental health care?


Call Child Protective Services.  That is how treatment and approval of its funding is established.  You will go through the court process and be charged neglect because you could not provide for the necessary medical needs of the child in order to verify payment eligibility.  That is why Toni Hoy was charged with abandonment.  It is done to qualify for payment as there are no other funding streams available.

Private insurance will not pay for such treatment. Even if you are financially in a position to pay directly, you may still be referred to Child Protective Services for an open case to qualify for case management.  Such is reality.

There are the adoption tax incentives, use them.  Such is life.

If these adoptive parents do not pay the court ordered child support, they will be facing termination of parental rights.

Then, these adoptive parents will be tallied and included in the aggregate data of the horrible demonic parents who abused and neglected their child all because they did not want to

recycle their children.

Welcome behind the iron curtain.  It's not pretty is it?  

Oh, and do not forget, your names shall be placed on the Central Registry of Abuse and Neglect.


Without sounding morbid, I get the greatest of jollies listening to the Tea Party pseudo conservatives who want to cut all social welfare programming and dismantle Medicaid, especially when you confront them with what they are going to do with children who are in need of assistance but cannot afford it.


This family will not lose the adopted child.  This family is horrified by the realities of child welfare.

Family May Lose Adopted Child

Child Can't Get Mental Health Care Otherwise

PEGRAM, Tenn. --

A Cheatham County couple is facing a predicament they call unconscionable: must they give back the child their adopted son from the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services?

That’s the dilemma that Cindy Fulmar is battling in order to get her son the mental health treatment his doctor said he needs.

"What a Catch-22. Where do you go with that?" Fulmar said.

The Fulmars always wanted a big family. When Cindy couldn’t have children, they adopted two brothers and sister, all with special needs. The oldest, their 12-year-old son, is diagnosed as autistic and psychotic.

"This time, he had harmed his brother to the point where it was extraordinarily dangerous," Fulmar said.

Their son was hospitalized for his mental illness. He eventually got well enough to leave the hospital, but not well enough to come home.

"Our son made it clear he feels he is still a threat to the other children in the home," Fulmar said.

A TennCare doctor recommended their son be placed in therapeutic foster care, meaning he'd be temporarily placed in the home of a highly trained couple. But TennCare won't pay for it.

A TennCare spokesman told Channel 4, "Therapeutic foster care is not and has never been a TennCare-covered service. Foster care is not a medical service. TennCare stands ready and willing to provide enrollees with any medically necessary therapeutic services and treatments that make up the 'therapeutic' aspect of Therapeutic Foster Care, but as the state’s Medicaid agency, we cannot find and pay for another home for our enrollees to live in and substitute parents to care for them."

Here's the Fulmars' dilemma: bringing their son home puts their other children in jeopardy. So now, DCS’s Child Protective Services division is removing their son from the home, deeming them neglectful parents.

Ironically, Fulmar said, once their son is in DCS custody, TennCare will pay for the therapeutic foster care.

"We live in the United States of America. And to give up custody of your child just so you can get health care, or for the safety of your family because of mental illness, is wrong. We adopted him, and we love him, and we're not going to give him up. Period," Fulmar said.