Anonymous ID: 527eb4 July 14, 2018, 3:43 p.m. No.2156991   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>7027 >>7143

>>2156920

it's TANF, not TAFN

 

https://youthtoday.org/2016/06/stop-tanf-from-being-the-child-welfare-slush-fund/

 

Someone calls child protective services. That agency isnโ€™t so sure about the guy either. But instead of offering child care, they take the child away, and place her in a well-off home in the suburbs. The caseworker falls in love with the adoptive parents, whose home reminds her so much of the one where she grew up. So her agency rushes to seek termination of parental rights.

 

Then those middle-class foster, now adoptive, parents get a monthly subsidy to help take care of the child.

 

The adoption subsidy comes from the very federal program that was supposed to help Jenny with child care. The foster care payments came from that program, too. Even the cost of sending out a child protective services worker to investigate Jenny and take away the child came from that program โ€” a program that is supposed to be used to help poor people become self-sufficient.

 

In the great debate over child welfare finance reform, few are paying attention to one of the biggest scandals surrounding how we pay for child welfare right now: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) has become a child welfare slush fund.