North Carolina can Repo your kids.

[fooferdoggie]

This is one of the states that believe in the family no less.

When Sylvia and Brandon Cunningham got out of jail in North Carolina several years ago, after serving months on drug charges, a judge laid out the steps they needed to take to get their children back from foster care.

After a balky start, they followed through. They got sober and stayed sober. They attended parenting classes and therapy. They got jobs. They showed up for weekly visits with their kids.

Eventually, a judge determined that the Cunninghams had shown they could be good parents and that their house — a tidy trailer at the end of a dirt road — was safe for their children.

But only three of their four children came home.

In 2021, the Supreme Court of North Carolina ruled that one of their sons — who was then 5 — was properly placed for adoption on the grounds that the Cunninghams had failed to reimburse the government for some of the cost of their child's foster care.

And in North Carolina, that's reason enough for a court to permanently take away your child.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/19/1148829974/foster-care-parental-rights-child-support?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

 

[SuperMatt]

This is one of the states that believe in the family no less.

When Sylvia and Brandon Cunningham got out of jail in North Carolina several years ago, after serving months on drug charges, a judge laid out the steps they needed to take to get their children back from foster care.

After a balky start, they followed through. They got sober and stayed sober. They attended parenting classes and therapy. They got jobs. They showed up for weekly visits with their kids.

Eventually, a judge determined that the Cunninghams had shown they could be good parents and that their house — a tidy trailer at the end of a dirt road — was safe for their children.

But only three of their four children came home.

In 2021, the Supreme Court of North Carolina ruled that one of their sons — who was then 5 — was properly placed for adoption on the grounds that the Cunninghams had failed to reimburse the government for some of the cost of their child's foster care.

And in North Carolina, that's reason enough for a court to permanently take away your child.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/19/1148829974/foster-care-parental-rights-child-support?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

The cruelty is right in line with the GOP’s usual behavior. But the cost to the state for keeping a child vs giving it back to the parents is far more than whatever they missed out on when the parents didn’t pay the foster care system. So that makes zero fiscal sense. Which, is right in line with the GOP’s usual behavior too. Claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility, then keep spending the same and cut taxes for corporations by a trillion bucks. Only when they are in the minority do they suddenly care about the huge debt they ran up when they were in the majority.

Their cruelty and duplicity are such that nothing they do surprises me anymore… unless it’s miraculously a good thing for a change. And I’m still waiting to see something like that.

This one:

• One young woman, who was 15 when she got pregnant, had her daughter taken because she didn't pay the foster care bill — even though both she and her child were in foster care themselves.

Great job, North Carolina government! You’re really pro-life.

Oh, and:

President Ronald Reagan, when he signed the bill, called the failure of some parents to provide financial support for their children a "blemish on America."

Of course it goes back to Saint Ron. The war on drugs, the war on welfare… somehow all turned out to be wars against kids growing up with parents and enough to eat. Just despicable.