UNITED WE MUST STAND
Deb Eulo
United we must stand… as KINship caregivers, to advocate for the rights
of children who are too small to stand up for themselves. We must unite
our voices so that the cries of our beaten, abandoned and abused children
can be heard.
United we must stand…as KINship caregivers to change the laws, Laws
that were written with the misconception that “Every parent wants what
is best for their children“. Laws that were written long before the scourge
of Meth and cocaine invaded our schools , our homes, and our communities.
Before the need to get that next fix became more important than feeding
our children.
Now is the time to push for laws through our states, that address the
most pressing issues. With the federal and state budgets in such crisis,
and the children's services departments being scrutinized internally and
externally, change will have to come.It amy not come in the form of money,
but it must come. It must come in the form of custody issues, timeframes,
services, benefits, and children's rights issues, whose sole goal is the
absolute best decisons made for the welfare of the child Those who have
the power to make the decisions must begin to look at the children first
and all other issues second.
United we must stand….as KINship caregivers we must educate not only
fellow caregivers but senators, congressmen, judges, attorneys, teachers,
preachers, and the woman next door. KINship care is not about stealing
our children’s children. The goal of KINship care is to protect our children
, all children, from a system that is over-worked and under-trained.
Now is the time to teach everyone around us that KINship care is a
provision for full-time nurturing and protection of children by family
adults other than parents.
United we must stand….as KINship caregivers we must understands that
all families are not the same. That what is right for one maybe wrong for
the next. That NOT all grandparents have the emotional, physical, or financial
ability to take on the tremendous responsibility of raising a second family.
Now is the time that we give a added hug to that family that must depend
on strangers we call Foster Parents to care for their precious little angels.
Foster parents are not our enemy but our ally. We are all fighting to protect
the children in our care. They are delivered babies in the middle of the
night. With no diapers, bottles, or formula. Foster parents are paid less
a day to care for your precious child than one would to kennel your pet
for a day.
United we must stand…. As a NATION, ready to say we have had enough.
It is unacceptable to abuse, neglect, and abandon A child. Now is the time
to remember that each and every child in this United States has been guaranteed
the same irrefutable rights as those who abuse those children; the right
to know health, the right to dream safely, and the right to pursue their
own happiness. It is time as a nation to remember when a child comes into
the picture that adult rights should stand secondary to children’s rights.
This is the true issue, whose rights are primary? Now is the time for us
to stand united, stomping our feet and yelling at the top of our lungs…….STOP
ABUSING OUR KIDS……Now is the time to change the LAWS to give the rights
to the child. Now is the time to search for the “BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD”
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A time comes in your life when you finally get it...
When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your
tracks and somewhere, the voice inside your head cries out - ENOUGH!
