Delaware County (NY) Social Services has uploaded a video onto its Facebook page today which is, in my humble opinion as Delaware County taxpayer, exposes me, as a taxpayer, to liability for a class lawsuit by parents.
What is wrong in this video?
I will explain what is wrong with it in separate articles, issue by issue (and - by the way, Delaware County should not be trying to delete their video off Facebook or any other pages after I publish this article. The video has been safely saved off Facebook onto my local storage).
Here, I publish the video I have saved off Delaware County (NY) Department of Social Services' Facebook page, and a full transcript of it the video I have made, so that it is easier for the readers to grasp the content at a glance and to navigate through the issues involved.
"Dan Endress, adoptive parent, Delancey: Everybody hypes up this whole adoption thing and, oh, man, here we go, you walk into the courtroom, you are nervous, you know, your life is changing forever, and 3 minutes later the judge... ah (laughing) ... asking your name, your intent - and:
Sean Kaufman, adoptive parent, Delancey, together with Dan Endress (listed as Shawn Kauffman in family obituaries and home ownership, wonder why his name was changed by DelCo DSS in this ad): Congratulations!
Dan Endress: And, that was the end of it.
(Time marker 0:22 shows the adopted child. Biological relatives of this child are welcome to come forward with their story.)
Dan Engress: We were looking at different options of starting a family and came up with "Foster-To-Adopt" option.
Allison Hamm, Delaware County (NY) DSS, "Home Finder": When the child is unable to be returned home, or they've been freed, then... they are freed for adoption which is what I do (a wide happy smile).
I then work with a foster family to complete the paperwork, and the process generally takes about a month - 6 weeks, and it goes to court, and the child is adopted. Yeah. And that's a wonderful day (smiling happily).
Dan Endress: He was in our care as a foster child,
then he went back to his biological Mom for about a month and a half, and at that time we have taken another foster youth...
And got a phone call that Mason was available again, so he came back to us,
and he's been with us ever since.
And, we finalized our adoption March 2nd, 2021, last year, a year ago.
Allison Hamm: We do have trainings
We have seasoned, or veteran foster parents that... when you have a new couple coming in to become a foster parent, we try to match them up, especially depending on the kind of the child they have placed with them in their home.
Because foster parents really are our greatest asset in being able to explain to new foster parents what's going on...
Dan Engress: When you are looking at surrogacy programs, programs of other ways to start a family, you are looking at over a $100,000 for a lot of those...
When you think about it, what you need to invest into a child before they are even with you, what you can invest in them over their lifetime.
It was a better option for us.
Allison Hamm: We are looking for a variety of families: single parents, traditional families, couples that live together, it really doesn't matter, we're just looking for individuals who can provide a loving, nurturing, supportive and safe environment for children in care.
Dan Engress: To become foster parents, we did the training classes,
where you fill out a pretty comprehensive application.
You are thinking about why you want to do it, they want to make sure you are there for the right reasons.
After asking yourself, what... what kind of child is gonna fit for your family at that point and time.
And, phone calls start happening, you can, you know, start asking questions, and
if it feels right, it feels right.
Allison Hamm: We need foster parents. Not that we have a lot of children that we are looking for placement for, but the homes we currently have certified are pretty full.
So we need more homes that when we do have a child that is unable to be placed through a relative, we have another home, another alternative for a child to go.
So if someone would come up and say - should I do foster care, what would you say to them?
Sean Kaufmann: Well, I was the conservative one, the one who was more hesitant, and now I would say - definitely, yes.
Because...
Dan Engress: There is always ... always a possibility of you helping, even if it is just one child, it's worth that journey, and ... um... it will help you grow as a family as well, I think. That's the biggest piece of it is.
Things that we never thought we would do, we've been able to do, and to share that with children is just amazing.
Sean Kaufmann: Yeah. That's really awesome.
====
To learn what's wrong with this sweet, happy, idyllic picture, and why I think this sweet wholesome video is evidence calling for a class lawsuit by parents and blood relatives of children ripped away from their biological kin and adopted out to strangers (for money to fund Delaware County DSS salaries, mind), stay tuned for my commentary, to be published in the next several days.
The questions I plan to cover (at least some of them) are:
- Is it proper for the government to place a child for foster care into the family that wants to adopt a child - and to save $100,000 on such an adoption?
- Should parents have a say whether to place their young child with a gay couple for foster care - while their parental rights are not terminated (and especially when no wrongdoing against them has been proven by DSS, which is usually the case when the child is placed into foster care)?
- Don't blood relatives of the child and the child himself have a right to their own identity not to be taken away from them, especially for profit?
- Doesn't it seem to you that Delaware County DSS (NY) is CALLOUSLY, FOR PROFIT and for CHEAP WOKE PR, is violating constitutional parental rights of the local poor - because they won't chase children of the local rich people, that's for sure.
No comments:
Post a Comment