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From the lens Drugging Foster Children.

If you were a foster child drugged against your will, I'd like to hear about it.

  • FosterCareScotland May 9, 2012 @ 1:54 am | delete
    age, I've just started work in the foster care sector, so I'm not expert and I'm not knocking America but the culture of drugging children is thankfully not so prevalent here in Scotland. I personally think the drug companies have a lot to answer for - they create a product and then have to sell it.
  • missesq10 Apr 8, 2012 @ 2:01 am | delete
    This lens is heart breaking to read, but you spoke the truth!
  • MrsPankhurst Jan 26, 2012 @ 7:48 pm | delete
    My concern is in situations where one child might be prescribed medication for ADHD and the foster carer take it upon themselves to use that medication on another child in care in order to have a more peaceful life.
  • CeeZeeCee Dec 7, 2011 @ 7:57 pm | delete
    You did an excellent job with this lens. People need to be aware of what is happening to kids in foster care. It's not only foster parents drugging their children. The pharmaceutical industry is so powerful and there is so much money involved. Parents and foster parents need to stand up to these doctors that are so quick to medicate. Anyone with common sense would know that it can't be right to give a child, that is growing and changing everyday, these extremely strong meds.

    I know that it is hard to deal with a child with issues, but there has to be something better than drugging them into submission. These kids will never be whole because they weren't given the chance to become productive members of society.

    The fact that the system would encourage this type of behavior by offering a "bonus" to foster parents of medicated kids is repulsive. I do not, in any way, mean to offend good foster parents. I understand that a foster parent needs additional monetary compensation for taking a child into their home. But if it works as you have described in this lens and foster parents are offered more money when the child has problems, they are creating a system that is just asking for trouble.

    Thank you for writing this lens. It was very well written and informative.
  • dwkm8 Jan 13, 2012 @ 2:30 am | delete
    So well said!!! I plan on suing the doctor too for medicating my son at age 3, and she had no prior history of the child. Also the second foster mother who lied because she was a school teacher and his foster mom couldn't stand his crying out for his mother made her own IEP evaluation and lied, and got two other signatures who one was her friend and co-worker my sons school kindergarten teacher along with her other friend the nurse of the school to give to the doctor to put my son on drugs. Sick world we live in...we need a future to save these foster kids from this destructive society.
  • Ohohdon Dec 2, 2011 @ 1:18 am | delete
    I have no doubts that there are hundreds of stories of abuse from foster parents. I've heard many disturbing stories from many different sources. It's a real problem that exists in a dark place in our society.

    What is also very disturbing to me is that there are many great foster parents who have to live down the bad rap left for them by the foster parents who have no business taking care of anyone's children.

    You never hear about the stories, like my parents, who took in dozens of foster children, took care of them, and loved them the same as their own children. My parents have foster children who have legally had their last name changed to match our name. My parents have grandchildren and great grandchildren from the foster children who have remained a significant part of our family for many years since growing up in a loving foster home.

    Foster care is not only a bunch of low life people receiving checks from the government that they spend on their own uses while neglecting the children who have been left under their care. Yes, they exist, but that's not the whole story.
  • EagleScoutMom Dec 6, 2011 @ 2:46 am | delete
    Thank you Ohohdon for standing up for the thousands of good, caring foster parents. Foster care has such a terrible reputation but what should we do - close all the foster homes - and then what? 560,000 children in the US (est) are in foster care.

    People are always so quick to criticize but they have no idea of how difficult the behaviors are or how damaged - emotionally, physically, socially, etc... these poor children are. They are broken inside. Many of these children come from drug addicted mothers who used drugs/alcohol while pregnant. If people would do the research they would learn that a baby's brain is susceptible to damage in those circumstances. ADHD, FAS, PTSD, ODD and many more are all VERY REAL issues that need a medical intervention in order for the child to make it in society. Teachers can't teach if these children are not treated. The children cannot learn or form relationships without treatment, therapy and various interventions. Of course there is abuse and not all of these children need to be medicated - that is a fact and more needs to be done about it.

    But as a foster parent of 15 years in a "therapeutic" agency, I can tell the difference between a child who just needs time and space and love to heal or stabalize and a child with real medical needs. It is never handled lightly. There is a team of people involved in making the decision to give a child medication. It is monitored closely and the "minimum" dose needed is prescribed. We have experienced many cases where the child was weaned off of medications based on our (foster parents) observations alone. But we have also seen wild psychotic children gain control over their lives with the help of medication. It is never an easy or quick decision.

    As a foster parent who truly cares, I felt hurt by this lens and all of the negative stories about greedy foster parents - it just is not true. We are allowed to have only 2 children in placement in our program. The compensation we receive is never enough. It is expensive to raise children - aside from food and clothing - sports (registration, uniforms, gear: cleats, bats, balls, team photos,) school pictures, bikes & scooters, Halloween costumes, Christmas gifts, Video Game systems & games, swim lessons, dance classes, piano lessons, (or whatever lessons the child takes an interest in), Birthday parties and gifts, iPods, summer camps, family vacations and recreational outings like Sporting Events or the Movies.... I could go on and on because the expenses go on and on. It never ends!

    A foster child is no different than my own child - they need the same exact things and in my family THEY GET THEM!!!! No questions asked. My foster children are part of our family as it should be and they have all loved it here! We have stayed in touch with many of our foster children who have grown up and have kids of their own. This is my life and I will never stop being a foster parent - these children need us and more people should step up and open their hearts and homes to a child in need - it will change your life if you are brave enough to let it. For sure "The System" is always trying to better itself and I've seen huge improvements since first becoming a foster family 15 years ago. There is much more oversight and it continues to improve.

    There are many of us doing the work everyday of the biological parents because we care about children and want to make the world a better place. Who else is gonna do it? Their own relatives won't or can't even take them in - it is a sad, dark part of society and I've cried many tears over the years for my foster children and in my heart I know I am doing a good thing!

    Sorry I had to vent and Kudos to your parents Ohohdon for all that they did to help children in foster care. There are so many good things happening in foster care and I wish people would start to focus on that and lift these children up because they are not deaf or blind - they hear the horrible things being said and they take it all in. It just adds to their pain and heartache and it's not fair to them either. They are just kids!

    There is so much more to say but the naysayers will never understand until they step up and become a foster parent. Thanks!
  • AmericanCitizen Dec 6, 2011 @ 4:55 pm | delete
    You really are not getting the point of the lens. This lens isn't against foster parents. It is an exposé of a system that rips children out of their homes on trivial charges only to place them in a more dangerous situation, where foster parents are PAID MORE when the children are prescribed drugs for the trauma they've endured in being taken from the parents that love them.

    If you are a good foster parent I'm on your side. It is the SYSTEM that I'm against because the system puts children in danger. These children do not deserve to be deprived of parents, families, security, and health. They are not guinea pigs to be used for medication trials.
  • awesomemother12 Dec 8, 2011 @ 2:24 pm | delete
    Thank you for being one of the far and few in between for providing a good home for someone elses children. Im sure your home life is not a perfect one and Im pretty sure you have those moments of stress and lose your cool from time to time. Im sure of it because it doesnt exist! Im sure there are good homes however I hear more bad than not and as far as mine and my husbands kids go that hasnt been the case and I have found more truth in this and other articles on this site to be truth and my children express it all the time. include but arent limited to molestation, exposure to homosexual porn at 5yrs old (cps sticking up for foster parent over a 5yr old boy), again repeating itself with my step son where they believe the foster parent over the child but in reversed roles believe the child over the parent, attorney wrking for cps and if they lose enough cases with the parents they get to switch over to make more money representing our children (my attorney is an example, then after representing my kids was arrested and charged with child pornography), my son missing at 5yrs old for HOURS in a city crawiling with sex offenders ended up being tied to a tree and lost in the woods (by foster dads adopted son), my daughter being screamed at because she had to go to the bathroom at bedtime at 4yrs old and then locked in a dark room, her also being hit in the face by previous foster parent for picking her nose 4yrs old, my stepson being evaluated before cps was in picture for add and determined through two teachers, my husband, and I that he did NOT have it. Now after seeing a pshychiatrist for 10 mins and asking 5-10 questions determined he did. Why when requested to put him on non narcotic meds they said no we have to put him on the strongest narcotic there is!!!!!!!! BY the way in my daughters foster home there were FIVE kids and it my step daughters there are THREE girls. my 8 yr old who doesnt know how to be an 8yr old was placed with teenage girls who are dating? its NOT about my children to them. As a christian with over 3 yrs of sobriety and even cps said provided them their needs and if it werent for us they wouldnt be this advanced or willing to have structure, I do not allow my 8 yr.old to sing rap with sexual content yet CPS and the foster parents dont seem to have a problem with it. Nor do they see a problem with violent videogames for my 11 yr old(not teenaged) whose biggest fear is death. US PARENTS NEED TO FIGHT FOR OUR CHILDRENS SAKE.
  • dwkm8 Jan 13, 2012 @ 3:08 am | delete
    I am a mother of three. I had at the time owned houses(landlord)for income. I also worked part time in the school system for the mentally handicapped. Worked part time cleaning houses for doctors. I know what you mean about affording kids. My attitude was all about kids!! I Love kids and love activities for kids. This should of been me as an intervention for all these foster kids. Now i know why I'm suing the county for millions and millions, right now! Because they violated not only my rights but more so my kids rights. I had plenty of family wanting to take my kids. I knew shortly after how many people in american have been affected by this SAME situation, which is Hugh.. trust me I am here!! reading fightcps.com this has been my best friend besides a one true friend who just 100% listens and cares and gives me possible hope to understand and identify what I see as an assessment of what happened. I never stop! This marks10 years of battle!! I will never stop till justice!!! Ever person out there has value and has any topic he can discuss to you that has happened to him or her just for the asking. This haS GOT TO CUT THE FOSTER CARER SYSTEM.But the whole CPS situation >> I see it as dangerous that most foster moms are beyond scared just from being in the system and dealing with cps workers, county caseworkers, supervisors ,that you's(foster parents) cannot even say it's easy to talk to these hard people who will not change if you are telling them you don't agree or associate yourself with what they tell you's to do. They get uptight, angry, and tell you the child usually will be removed. I guess everything happens for a reason! So many issues.. lets just take one step at a time... just to ask for help?? If we can see you being a straight edge mom and part of the process will teach us to change and look to other things and make us realize and willing to help make these changes>> Opportunity!! get negativity outta peoples heads>> choices can be bad things>> but when you change those choices>>"I guess you make change" One of the alliterative's I see is Starting with certificate's is a nice prosperous outlook for people who want to take or restart lives. Realizing, Maybe a housing system program with the parent is acceptable. That isn't that bad! What I'm trying to find is a new alternative to foster system to foster advocating.
  • Oct 6, 2011 @ 10:20 am | delete
    This is really disturbing. I can't believe what is happening in foster homes! I'm a doctor with a backgroud in psychiatry and would never resort to meds in such a situation. Thank you for an informative lens.
  • griffinhenderson21 Jul 20, 2011 @ 2:44 pm | delete
    I am currently getting input on my lense and I need some suggestions on what would make it better
  • dwkm8 Jan 13, 2012 @ 3:09 am | delete
    I am a mother of three. I had at the time owned houses(landlord)for income. I also worked part time in the school system for the mentally handicapped. Worked part time cleaning houses for doctors. I know what you mean about affording kids. My attitude was all about kids!! I Love kids and love activities for kids. This should of been me as an intervention for all these foster kids. Now i know why I'm suing the county for millions and millions, right now! Because they violated not only my rights but more so my kids rights. I had plenty of family wanting to take my kids. I knew shortly after how many people in american have been affected by this SAME situation, which is Hugh.. trust me I am here!! reading fightcps.com this has been my best friend besides a one true friend who just 100% listens and cares and gives me possible hope to understand and identify what I see as an assessment of what happened. I never stop! This marks10 years of battle!! I will never stop till justice!!! Ever person out there has value and has any topic he can discuss to you that has happened to him or her just for the asking. This haS GOT TO CUT THE FOSTER CARER SYSTEM.But the whole CPS situation >> I see it as dangerous that most foster moms are beyond scared just from being in the system and dealing with cps workers, county caseworkers, supervisors ,that you's(foster parents) cannot even say it's easy to talk to these hard people who will not change if you are telling them you don't agree or associate yourself with what they tell you's to do. They get uptight, angry, and tell you the child usually will be removed. I guess everything happens for a reason! So many issues.. lets just take one step at a time... just to ask for help?? If we can see you being a straight edge mom and part of the process will teach us to change and look to other things and make us realize and willing to help make these changes>> Opportunity!! get negativity outta peoples heads>> choices can be bad things>> but when you change those choices>>"I guess you make change" One of the alliterative's I see is Starting with certificate's is a nice prosperous outlook for people who want to take or restart lives. Realizing, Maybe a housing system program with the parent is acceptable. That isn't that bad! What I'm trying to find is a new alternative to foster system to foster advocating.
  • promotional-coupons-codes Jun 21, 2011 @ 6:13 am | delete
    Thanks for bringing up this issue and making people like me aware about the abuse against children. Hope some day I can use this knowledge and help some one.
  • GroovyFinds May 10, 2011 @ 5:47 pm | delete
    Our previous foster child came to us on 7 different drugs & barely spoke. He was 15 & his parents had him on this cocktail since he was Four (so he could qualify for disability), he was also 4'7" tall & not growing because of the drugs! We immediately took him off everything to see how he really was, added growth shots to the mix so the poor kid could at least drive a car as an adult.

    Turns out his actual issues cannot be treated with meds & what they were treating his for he never even had, but that didn't stop the Dr from trying to give us something new every other week. They wouldn't listen when I said this is a behavioral problem not a med problem. Pills are not the answer to everything!
  • Widemouth Apr 2, 2011 @ 6:37 pm | delete
    Good for you for standing up against the system for these children and for reform!
  • Pastiche Oct 5, 2010 @ 10:32 am | delete
    This is a real shocker to me. I know some parents use OTC meds on little ones and I think that's criminal. To drug any child seems barbaric to me. I've considered being a foster parent at times but I would never give a child drugs and if directed to do so I would question the system. Blessed by a Squid Angel.
  • sallemange Sep 19, 2010 @ 2:37 am | delete
    This is totally shocking. I saw a recent documentary on UK TV about drugging kids with so called 'attention defict disorder'. I write as someone who has been on the wrong end of the 'pill is the solution' philosophy. When I was a student my GP prescribed Soroxat because he said is was under stress. (of course I was I was doing my finals) He was visiting because I had 'flu. That evil drug caused me to have panic attacks which I'm only now 10 years later getting over. Drugging kids is a very bad idea.
  • LisaAuch Jul 14, 2010 @ 2:21 pm | delete
    I was so moved by this, I actually couldn't watch the videos, I was a residential Child care Worker, working with young children who were brought into care, A last chance place before being locked up!!! I have experienced this first hand having children arrive addicted to medicines, luckily our organisation would work with the child and focus on their NEEDS and slowly wean them off the "drugs", most of the children were under 12! It was nice then to have coherent children running around and laughing, They were the lucky ones.

    Thankyou for your bravery in tackling a very taboo topic
  • strebe May 27, 2010 @ 3:15 am | delete
    I was a foster child and was fed depression drugs. I was sad because I had no family, I was stripped from my two brothers and my mother. All I needed was someone to talk too, but instead they drugged me. The depression meds made me more depressed and suicidal. And whenmy foster mother at the time saw my suicide notes, she told my caseworker, who was barely around, and the caseworker would show up to take me to the doctor. She did not talk to me at all. The doctor upped my dose. I was 13. I said screw this! I refused my meds, but the f. mom said I had to or else. I put the meds in my mouth and pretended to take it then flushed it later. After a few weeks, my f. mom said something like wowo that new dose is doing wonders. I was like BS I havent been taking it. I couldnt concentrate on the pills and my grades were failing. The moment I got off I was better. My grades improved and so did my attitude. I stayed with this f. mom from 13-17 but before that was 15 different homes in 12 months. It was intense. I was happy to find a f. mom that kept me. But that whole time she thought i was medicated, and she got payed for a "special needs" child too. On my move out day, when I graduated, at the age of 17, she handed me my pill bottle and said dont forget these, you can refill them at...I interupted her and said "you know what? I dont need these, I stopped taking them when I was 13" She looked like she had peed her pants. I told her that I shoved them into my gums in the back of my mouth so when she checked she could not see it. Then I told her she would of known earlier IF SHE TALKED to me. But she was too busy with the other 6 children in the house, she di not care if the pills made me sick. I told her if she learns anything, she needs to talk to her f. kids and stop anticipating pay day. I felt GOOD telling her that.
  • dwkm8 Jan 13, 2012 @ 2:07 am | delete
    Strebe, I am so proud of you for standing up for yourself ,and you became what God predicted for you. The wise man. You are now how old?? I too have a son is foster care that they put on drugs at age 3.. I have never stopped crying over this! I had to gain strength to right from the start, right after I had a brain surgery. They took my three kids and lied, falsified reports, affidavits, everything lied in court to keep them and try to adopt them. When in fact my oldest two would not allow them to adopt them. My youngest was 10 years younger and he couldn't defend himself, once they split all the kids up from the get go. Put them all in an inadequate foster home X's three. after split them up one by one in the night to different foster homes. It was all because I placed the kids voluntarily for my surgery. After my surgery the caseworker lied about my visits telling me that I had to wait for court for visits. She lied!! Also when I sent to court the judge gave the kids back. 10 months later a different caseworker tried to ask me if i would give up my kids again so she could help me. She lied!!! Then she came after me with more lies!!! She won in court!!! Now my two oldest aged out and are home...Oh! and they went through alot of abuse... now my youngest is still in the system and is being abused by drugs.. I'm suing the county for millions and I will put and end to cps when I win...PROMISE
  • WeddingZazzle Apr 17, 2010 @ 5:20 am | delete
    Thank you for bringing attention to an important subject. Blessed by a SquidAngel
  • Ecomum Apr 13, 2010 @ 6:24 am | delete
    I can't imagine that something like that could happened.
  • dc64 Dec 21, 2009 @ 8:11 pm | delete
    I'm glad someone else is fighting for the foster child here. This has been going on for some time, and the more we bring this stuff to light, the better chance these children have. My oldest daughter was diagnosed with ADHD and ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder), and the doctor wrote out two prescriptions...I took them home and threw them in the garbage. So my child had trouble concentrating, was hyper at times, and defiant. I handled that with logic, love, patience, and humor. She is 25 now, and still has a little trouble concentrating, gets impulsive at times, and can argue a point to death, but she is fun to be around. She is creative, silly, beautiful, messy, and has never done drugs, or even smoked cigarettes a day in her life. As a matter of fact, when she needs to concetrate on something, she drinks a cup of coffee and she does just fine. I think some parents medicate their children out of laziness, but what is it doing to that young brain?
    Lensrolled to my foster child lens.
  • scarywoodwitch Nov 20, 2009 @ 10:20 am | delete
    Sometimes I think more damage is caused by taking these kids out of their homes and giving them uppers to keep them concentration, downers to knock them out, something to make them less whiny, something to suck out their spirit, something to bandage their pain, I've seen it, I know one kid in particular, well, more than one, and she came out worse than she came in. How gross is this, its terrible. Its one thing for a child to be on something mild if they are genuinely mentally ill, quite another to give them drugs that would make an adult loopy.
  • Nov 12, 2009 @ 7:32 am | delete
    Wow - what an eye opener. Anything for money I guess. How heartbreaking.
  • RollingLuggage Nov 9, 2009 @ 4:50 pm | delete
    Wonderful lens & Great information
  • a_willow Nov 7, 2009 @ 4:08 am | delete
    I have read this page 3 times. And each time it made me sad. It's bad to read about stories like this. And always makes me thing: "What did they think about when they did that?!" Thank you for making this lens and spreading the word about this problem. Blessed by an Angel!
  • abcs123s Nov 7, 2009 @ 3:05 am | delete
    I am a mom of four very young children that were taken from me by cps and I'll tell you what- the day judge decided to not let my children come home was the day they labeled all four children as "special needs". I am not telling lies. My children were very healthy and well-cared for when they were taken from us but cps said we were "unable to care for our children physically, financialy, and emotionally" so I was given an "agreement" to follow and I did everything to the best of my ability and after two years of being dragged through the mud cps said I was not in compliance and that my children need to be adopted. And that is exactly what happened. I'm not allowed to know where my children are or what is happening to them. I have no rights. Wouldn't it make sense for children to be evaluated, tested, and checked out by doctors at the time cps is trying to take them out of their home? I am convinced that it is ABUSE OF POWER. How many people will it take to stop this? We need you!
  • dwkm8 Jan 13, 2012 @ 2:14 am | delete
    That's were I'm at, but right now their going down. I'm suing the crap outta them for millions ans millions of dollars, maybe this will make them listen. I promise you, this is over for cps anymore, that simple! We use to back in the days use police for disputes or any arguments, domestic fights, well that's what i say go back too. No more cps!!
  • TasiL Nov 7, 2009 @ 2:08 am | delete
    Thanks for sharing very sad to hear this. Blessings to this lens and healing blessings to all foster children...
  • eccles1 Nov 4, 2009 @ 11:52 am | delete
    A Helping Hand Adoption Agency is a Christian interdenominational ministry dedicated to serving orphans around the world through adoptions and orphan relief.they specialize in domestic adoptions and international adoptions from China, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia.. and there are adoptions also in Africa and India so what happen to American children?? many do not get adopted they end up in foster care !! not all Foster parents are bad thank goodness! but they end up with too many kids Could it be that our government makes more money keeping these kids with foster parents under drugs?? Is our government all about money? what a sad lens but glad you made it !!!
  • Artemus-Gordon Nov 3, 2009 @ 1:12 pm | delete
    Sadly the whole foster system needs an overhaul for many reasons. True there are some wonderful families taking in these children but there are also so many other terrible things going on. These kids do not have a voice to speak up for themselves and they either become victims or runaway to fend for themselves.
  • LindaJM Nov 3, 2009 @ 8:27 am | in reply to boogsbass | delete
    About the money, you should know that the states all set different sums for foster care. Those sums may vary according to the age of the child or severity of disability. Same with the amount given as adoption subsidies for "special needs" children. Those subsidies are closer to $1000 than $300 (per child per month) in most cases, I'll bet. They vary from one situation to another.
  • boogsbass Nov 3, 2009 @ 8:03 am | delete
    I want to respond to this because I AM a foster parent. I have a child with adhd and is taking meds. He NEEDS them and we very closely monitor the medicine so that he is NOT 'zombified'. I am proud of our home and of our children. As for the money....WHAT is she talking about??? We barely get 300 a month...not thousands...geez. I think our system works pretty darn good for the most part.
  • jerry-allen Oct 31, 2009 @ 1:53 am | delete
    i heard Children's are safe at foster care before reading this. Don't know how its happening in this much of wideness and government don't know much on this.
    It hurts "There are even kids in the system as young as two years old on the drugs." The people who is doing this. are there heart is made up of stone or they havn't any.
    Nice lens for lightning these things.
  • 24websurf Oct 24, 2009 @ 2:57 pm | delete
    It is horrible that we have taken the rights of the parent and given them to schools, doctors and institutions. I live in a state where the accuser doesn't have to prove anything, just make an accusation and the child is removed from a loving parent. My aunt had 11 foster children throughout her life and every single one came to her funeral. Not every foster parent is an abuser but the truth is out there. They are not investigated as much as the parent. Society is less willing to give credit to a parent than a stranger. It's all a money game and the children always lose. ~ Blessed by a Squid Angel ~ and thank you for all that you do.
  • tjustleft Oct 24, 2009 @ 1:57 am | delete
    All your hard work and I can't finish reading it. Thank you for taking the time to raise awareness for these children. I will share this link wherever I can. May God bless you and all children.
  • WeddingZazzle Oct 23, 2009 @ 3:10 pm | delete
    As a former foster child, I can appreciate this lens. Thank you.
  • mukunda22 Oct 23, 2009 @ 9:04 am | in reply to mukunda22 | delete
    Congrats on the purple star!! It is well deserved!!
  • spunkyduckling Oct 22, 2009 @ 12:24 pm | delete
    Thank you for bringing this to light. I had no idea that the situation was so terrible. Will do with your request. Submitted. Oh and thank you for blessing my lens too. Keep up the good work.
    God's blessings to you and your family
  • Brookelorren Oct 22, 2009 @ 3:54 am | delete
    Great job. It makes me sad when people are so quick to suggest taking kids away from their parents, and it makes me sick how some people, who are supposed to be caring for these kids, treat them.
  • jjj1 Oct 20, 2009 @ 4:44 pm | delete
    This is absolutely horrific. It needs exposing. Five stars and I hope it does some good.
  • natnickeep Oct 20, 2009 @ 2:39 pm | delete
    This is horrible to think about. I had no idea. Thank you for the eye opener and this is a great lens. You can almost tell that these kids have been effected just by looking at them. And someone has to stand up for them.
  • pkmcr Oct 19, 2009 @ 3:28 pm | delete
    Utterly heartbreaking SquidAngel Blessed
  • Ener-G Oct 19, 2009 @ 11:32 am | delete
    Linda, this is so heart breaking and sad. Angel blessings to this lens and healing blessings to all the children...
  • lasertek Oct 18, 2009 @ 7:54 pm | delete
    Great lens! Heard about this but never believed it. Now, I'm convinced that this do happen. Very terrible!

    Visit my lens if you got the time. Thanks
  • annmackiemiller Oct 17, 2009 @ 2:43 am | delete
    tragic
  • GrowWear Oct 16, 2009 @ 9:03 pm | delete
    Heartbreaking. Your Drugging Foster Children lens has been blessed by a Squid Angel.
  • BevsPaper Oct 16, 2009 @ 6:52 pm | delete
    Thank you for bringing this deplorable practice to light! A remarkable lens and blessed by a Squid Angel.
  • eclecticeducation Oct 16, 2009 @ 6:52 pm | delete
    How sad! Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

    ~Lynn
  • mukunda22 Oct 16, 2009 @ 4:40 pm | delete
    Linda-although disturbing, I am impressed with the passion and thoroughalness which you approach this topic. You face the demon head on and write about it unabashedly.

    And from such a pristine place in Northern California, too, where these things are (hopefully) are rarities.

    Institutionalized childabuse. I must do some investigation of my own, even as
    I ask for help from unseen forces, even as those forces bless this lens. (####Blessed####)
  • Michey Oct 16, 2009 @ 4:23 pm | delete
    Thanks, you have a great message in this lens.
    Squid Angel Blessings for you.
    Regards
  • Joan4 Oct 16, 2009 @ 4:03 pm | delete
    This is a nightmare and should never happen in a civilized society. You have done a beautiful job with this issue. Blessed!
  • Kate-Phizackerley Oct 16, 2009 @ 3:44 pm | delete
    Sickening.

    (Lens blessed)
  • OhMe Oct 16, 2009 @ 2:21 pm | delete
    You have sure done an excellent job telling this horrible story for the children. Blessed!
  • rms Oct 16, 2009 @ 1:31 pm | delete
    All I can say is wow. very sad.
  • badmsm Oct 16, 2009 @ 1:05 pm | delete
    I think it's wrong to medicate kids anyway, since most of the so called 'diseases' they are supposed to have can be controlled with good nutrition and exercise. This is just a way to try to control them.

    They also need to come down on the people who are behind this (doctors, CPS, bad foster parents) and make them accountable. These kids have had enough to deal with in their young lives, without being poisoned by people who lack conscience.
  • KimGiancaterino Oct 16, 2009 @ 12:54 pm | delete
    Just more evidence that less is more when it comes to government intervention in our lives. Tragic, indeed. Blessed by a Squid Angel.
  • ChineseKitesforKids Oct 15, 2009 @ 9:26 pm | delete
    What a horrible thing to do to children! I think in general doctors are too quick to hand mind altering drugs to little ones. The number of kids on ADHD medication is ridiculous! This is a terrific lens! Very informative. I had no idea it was this bad.

    5*****
  • stargazer00 Oct 15, 2009 @ 11:28 am | delete
    It is very horrifying what happens to children who fall through the cracks. Children are not very highly valued in our legal system. Have you ever noticed that someone who kills or abuses a child doesn't do very much time? But if someone kills a cop or a judge they are put away for a long time. Is it because children are powerless? Because they can't vote? Blessed.
  • dwkm8 Jan 13, 2012 @ 2:23 am | delete
    Unbelievable well said!!!! you need the purple heart award...
  • inkserotica Oct 15, 2009 @ 3:55 am | delete
    A sad and worrying state of affairs :( 5*
  • MsSnow4a Oct 15, 2009 @ 3:35 am | delete
    Great lens, i have a friend who's grandkids were in foster care. The foster mother was wonderful though. Blessed

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