View Full Version : Parents send mentally ill children to foster care for help


Andrew
11-29-04, 08:04 PM
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Newport,VA,USA
... Many of the children suffer from schizophrenia, severe depression or bipolar disorder. Private insurers and HMOs do not fully cover ...
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--fostercare-mental1129nov29,0,4806266.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia

Coral Rhedd
11-30-04, 01:32 AM
Some of these children are probably in treatment foster care and, to be blunt, sometimes they and their siblings are better off because of it. Caring for a severely mentally ill child taxes the resources a parent needs to care for other children.

You know, BIG, we had a chance to elect a president who would have made access to health care a priority. We blew it.