Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Kansas SHL Advocates For Grandparents Rights VS Foster Care

Read the article below..click to enlarge. A couple quotes from this article:

"We heard testimony from several grandparents who felt they weren't being treated right," said Zook. "People are not happy with the way the SRS is handling it. It seems like SRS get more money if they put the children into foster homes than they do giving the children to their grandparents. The grandparents feel they are being left out."

"It was awful," Zook said of the stories told to the SHL by distraught grandparents. "They expected to take their grandchildren home and the next thing they knew, the grandchildren were in foster homes out of state. The children are so unhappy."

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This was posted on YouTube by the Kansas WatchDog. This mother lost her parental rights because she was a domestic violence victim and the grandparents were not eligible because the grandmother takes meds for her health. The children were placed in foster care and probably adopted by now.

State Rep Pete DeGraaf Challenges SRS Don Jordan on Children's Issues
DeGraaf requests Jordan to do his best to get the children back to their homes.


Rep Bill Otto talks about how children are taken from parents custody even when they have not committed a crime and in one case the lack of having a telephone was the reason that the children were taken from their parents.

Grandmother Kathy Winters lost custody of her grandchildren.

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