It should be noted that this hearing was assigned to the venue of finance as legislation has been introduced to reconstruct the purpose of child welfare.
The U.S. Government wants to stop removing children from families and stop wasting money on foster care by investing in individuals, parents and children, to become productive members of society.
The Competition.
In this video, you have the Christian-based organization, the Foundation for Government Accountability which is not advocating for change in child welfare system, but is rather promoting its conservative postition of profiteering from others.
Instead of using the term "Foster Family", it has adopted the term "Safe Family".
Still functioning under the faith-based initiatives in foster care, these "host parents" will be financially compensated by the federal government through state foster parent payments.
Notice how there is no mention of providing direct financial assistance to the origianl parent.
There is a direct correlation between poverty and foster care.
As long as there is poverty, there are those who will find a way to profit from it.
Child welfare is a multi-billion dollar, unregulated industry and the war has begun on who gets funding: Parents v. Foster Parents
I stand to applaud Senator Orin Hatch's bold initiative to bring this matter to the public light.
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