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This blog is to take a look at the legislation surrounding foster care in different states. The lack of consistency among these laws is negatively effecting the children in this system, and is creating a system that is unfix-able. If there is not a unified system, the children in foster care will only ever beContinue reading “Introduction”

Foster care in Texas laws are ahead of Georgia’s. For many years already, Texas has held kinship care has the first priority for children before moving them to traditional foster care. Texas also has a program called “extended foster care” which gives the child in foster care an extra support many states do not have.Continue reading “Texas Foster Care”

California foster care is specially focused on reuniting the children with their birth parents. For this reason, most foster parents in California are not setting out to adopt. A person does need to hold a license to have a foster home, but the personal, safety, and space requirements are very minimal. The law itself onlyContinue reading “California Foster Care”

New York foster care law 18-OCFS-ADM-03 was pushed through to expand the kinship care available in the state. This law does not expand who is allowed to be considered for kinship care, but it does expand who is eligible for payments from the system to house the children being placed in their care. This lawContinue reading “New York Foster Care”

Georgia’s foster care legislation is moving towards kinship care over traditional foster care. Kinship care is defined as the full-time care of a child by a blood relative. In May, Governor Brian Kemp signed the piece of legislation that will move Georgia forward in the attempt to ensure this. The bill states that every placementContinue reading “Georgia Foster Care”